Delivery
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
conveyancing, is the transferring of a deed from the grantor to the grantee: or the delivery may be made and accepted by an attorney. This is indispensably necessary to the validity of a deed. As to the form, the delivery may be by words without acts; as, if the that as my deed,” it will be a sufficient delivery; or it may be by acts without words, and therefore a dumb man may deliver a deed.
Wood. B. 2,c. 3.
A delivery may-be either absolute, as when it is delivered to the grantor himself; or it may be conditional, that is, to a third person to keep until same condition shall have been performed by the grantee, and then it is called an escrow, (q. v.) See 2 Bl. Com. 306; 4 Kent, Com. 446; Cruise, Dig. tit.
32, c. 2, 8. &7.