Operative Words
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Those by which the purpose of an instrument is effected. Generally applied to those words in a deed by which an estate is passed, viz., "grant," "quitclaim," "demise," "bargain and sell," etc.