Delivery

[Lat. traditio; L. Lat. deliberatio.] In conveyancing. One of the essential requisites to the validity of a deed.

2 Bl. Com. 306, 307.

This may be either absolute, that is, to the party or grantee himself, or to a third person, to hold till some conditions be performed on the part of the grantee, in which last case it is not delivered as a deed but as an escrow; that is, as a scrowl or writing which is not to take effect as a deed till the conditions be performed, and then it is a deed to all intents and purposes. Id. ibid. 1 Steph. Com. 459, and note.

4 Kent's Com. 454. Smith on Contracts, 7. 2 Hilliard's Real Prop. 282, 287.

See Livery, Sealed and delivered, Traditio, Escrow.