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Dedi Et Concessi

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

I have given and granted. The operative words of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and dceds of glft and grant; the English "given and granted" being still the most proper, though not the essential, words by which such conveyances are made.

2 Bl. Comm. 53, 316, 317; 1 Steph. Comm. 164, 177, 473, 474.