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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Delivery; transfer of possession.

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Delivery makes a deed speak. Delivery gives efiect to the words of a deed; until delivered, a deed is without effect.