Grant

At Commbn Law. A transfer by deed of that which cannot pass by livery.

Williams, Real Prop. 149.

A grant was proper to transfer an incorporeal hereditament or a reversion or vested remainder in land, but in England, before 1845, a grant was not effectual to transfer an estate in fee in land in possession.

7 W. Va. 235.

A grant is now sufficient to convey any estate.

12 Minn. 468.

In Modern Law. A general term, Including all sorts of conveyances.

4 Mason (U. S.) 69.

The term is properly applicable only to realty (1 Mont. 410), but it has been applied to personalty.

12 Minn. 468.

It is particularly applied to conveyances By the word "grant," in a treaty, is meant not only a formal grant, but any concession, warrant, order, or permission to survey, possess, or settle, whether written or parol, express, or presumed from possession. Such a grant may be made by law, as well as by a patent pursuant to a law.

12 Pet. (U. S.) 410.

See 9 Adol. & E. 532; 5 Mass. 472; 9 Pick. (Mass.) 80. "Office grant" applies to conveyances made_ by some officer of the law to effect certain purposes, where the owner is either unwilling or unable to execute the requisite deeds to pass the title. "Private grant" is a grant by the deed of a private person. "Public grant" is the mode and act of creating a title in an individual to lands which had previously belonged to the government. The public lands of the United States, and of the various states, have been to a great extent conveyed by deeds or patents issued in virtue of general laws; but many specific grants have also been made, and are the usual method of 'transfer during the colonial period.

See 2 Washb. Real Prop. 517-536; 4 Kent, Comm. 450, 494; 8 Wheat. (U. S.) 543; 6 Pet. (U. S.) 548; 16 Pet. (U. S.) 367; Brightly, Dig. U, S. Laws, "Lands"; "Patent."

Among the modes of conveyance included under office grant are levies and sales to satisfy execution creditors, sales by order or decree] of a court of chancery, sales by order or license of court, sales for nonpayment of taxes, and the like.

See Blackw.

Tax Titles, passim; 2 Washb. Real Prop. 536-549.

With regard to private grants, see "Deed."