Key
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
An instrument made for opening a lock. The keys of a house. are considered as real estate, and descend to the heir with the inheritance. When the keys of a warehouse are delivered to a purchaser of goods locked up there, with a view of effecting a delivery of such goods, the delivery is complete. The doctrine of the civil law is the same. Dig. lib.
41, t. 1,1.
9, § 6; and lib.
18,t. 1, }. 74.