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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The delivery of a deed or other instrument (31 111. 538), actually executed and ready for delivery -(42 Wis. 440) to a stranger to the instrument (13 Ohio St. 254), to be by him delivered to the person for whose benefit it is made, on the performance of a condition, or the happening of a contingency (90 Ala. 294), or to be redelivered to the depositor on failure thereof (24 Neb. 86).