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.