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Concessio

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In old English law

A grant; one of the old common assurances, or forms of conveyance, being properly of things incorporeal which cannot pass by deed.

2 Bl. Comm. 317.

CONCESSIO PER REGEM FIERI DEBET de certitudine. A grant by the king ought to be a grant of a certainty.

9 Coke, 46.

CONCESSIO VERSUS CONCEDENTEM latam interpretationem habere debet. A grant ought to have a liberal interpretation against the grantor.

Jenk. Cent. Cas. 279.