SIENS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SIENS. An obsolete word, formerly used for scion, which figuratively 
  signified a person who descended from another. "The sien," says Lord Coke, 
  "takes all his nourishment from the stocke, and yet it produceth his own 
  fruit." Co. Lit. 123 a. Vide Branch.