Livery

5 Delivery; tradition.

The act or the form by which possession of land was formerly given or received. Livery in chivalry. When the heirmale at twenty-one, or an heir-female at sixteen, sued out a delivery of his or her lands from the guardian.

6 livery of seisin.

Pure feudal investiture, or delivery of corporal possession of land or of a tenement.' Was absolutely necessarf to complete a donation; the last act by which a feoffment was perfected. It preserved the testimony of the grant in the community. It was necessary to the grant of an estate of freehold in a corporeal hereditament; impossible in the case of an incorporeal hereditament; and not essential to a lease for years or other chattel interest. Hence, a, freehold could not be made to commence in futuro, the actual manual tradition of the land being wanting. Livery in deed. Livery actually made on the land, before witnesses. Livery in law. Livery made In sight of the land. Both were succeeded by delivery inwriting.' Land granted by livery of seisin, without defining the quantity of the estate, was treated as a life-estate." Where there was a delivery of possession, without defining the term, there arose only a tenancy at will.' •See further Delivery, 1.