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and shall also have exclusive original cognizance of all seizures on land.

Is that referring to the common law? And if so, is that also predicated upon express reservation?
does not the term "seize" develop the idea of "take" - and that which is "taken" is either "abandoned" or "possessed by force." Nevertheless who may possess the land but one who has made claim to the land or one who has at his/her disposal an army willing to kill to gain rights to the land.

If one is making claim to the land then one is developing a new Estate and said Head of State is a Suitor who courts - as in dates - and the foundation upon the marriage [contract], if there be an engagement, is the common law. Certainly we do not wish to trespass upon another's claim to rights of use of the land.