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Concessio

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In old English law

A grant. One ofthe old common assurances, or forms of conveyance. Concessio per regem fleri debet do certitudine. 9 Coke, 46. <A grant by the king ought to be made from certainty. Coneessio versus econecedentem latam interpretationem habere debet. A grant ought to have a broad interpretation (to be liberally interpreted) against the grantor, Jenk. Cent. 279.