Exchange

conveyancing. An exchange is a mutual grant o1 equal interests in land, the one in consideration of the other. 2 Bl. Com. 323; Litt. s.62; Touchs. 289; there are five circumstances necessary to an exchange; 1. That the estates given be equal. 2. That the word escambium or exchange be used, which cannot be supplied by any other word, or described by circumlocution. 3. That there be an execution by entry or claim in the life of the parties. 4. That if it be of things which lie in grant, it be by deed. 5. That if the lands lie in several counties, it be by deed indented; or if the thing lie in grant, though they be in one county. In practice this mode of conveyance is obsolete. Vide Cruise, Dig. tit. 32; Perk. ch. 4; 10 Vin. Ab. 125; Com. Dig. h. t.; Nels. Ab. h. t. Vide Horsman, 362; 3 Wood, 243, for forms.