| The testamentary executor's seizin gives him or her control over the estate patrimony, and legatees can demand their shares only once that seizin has terminated. |
| Furthermore, the provisions of the new Civil Code of Québec, S. Q. 1991, c. 64, seem to have clarified Quebec law regarding the operation of seizin. |
| This was the transferring of land under the old ceremony of the livery of seizin, a feudal ceremony. |
