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

Black's Law Dictionary

To accrue to; to be fixed; to take effect; to give a fixed and indefeasible right An estate is vested in possession when there exists a right of present enjoyment; and an estate is vested in interest when there is a present fixed right of future enjoyment.

Fearne, Rein. 2.

To clothe with possession; to deliver full possession of land or of an estate; to give seisin; to enfeoff.

Speiman.