Livery

In English law

Delivery; a writ which lay for an heir in Icnight-service to obtain possession of lands; the privilege of a particular company. Livery ol seisin: delivery of seisin; delivery of corporeal possession of lands or tenements conveyed; a ceremony in conveyance by feoffment, without which the feoffee had but an estate at will. Livery in deed, or actual livery, was performed by the feoffor, or his attorney, entering with the charter of feoffment, latch of the door, in the name of seisin of all the lands; livery in law, by a performance of the ceremony without entry, but in sight of the land.