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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Prim·er, a.  First; original; primary. [Obs.] “The primer English kings.”
 Primer fine O. Eng. Law, a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. --Blackstone.
 Primer seizin Feudal Law, the right of the king, when a tenant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished.