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Concessio

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from concedere, to grant.] A grant. One of the old common assurances, or forms of conveyance, being properly of things incorporeal, which cannot pass without deed.

Co. Litt. 9 b. 2 Bl. Com. 317.

See Grant. Concessio per regem fieri debet de certitudine. A grant by the king ought to be made of a certainty.

Jenk. Cent. 279.

Concessio versus concedentem latam interpretationem habere debet. A grant ought to have a broad interpretation [to be liberally interpreted] against the grantor.

Jenk. Cent. 279.