« Reply #4 on: Monday 15 August 11 11:04 BST (UK) »
I understand the term feoffment etc., but my memory bell is ringing. Seased, or seized, I think is also an old term to do with property transfers etc.
Of course, inevitably, I will be proven wrong.

I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)
Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.