Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    I have given and granted.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    I have given and granted. The operative words of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and dceds of glft and grant; the English "given and granted" being still the most proper, though not the essential, words by which such conveyances are made. 2 Bl. Comm. 53, 316, 317; 1 Steph. Comm. 164, 177, 473, 474.