Traditio

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In old English law

Delivery or livery. Traditio loqnl facit chartam: delivery makes a deed speak. Traditio rei: delivery of a thing. In the civil law. Delivery; transfer of possession; a giving possession of a corporeal thing. Traditio clavlum: delivery of the keys; a symbolical delivery, by which the ownership of goods sold might be ' transferred to the buyer. Traditio nihil amplius transferre debet Tel potest, ad enm qui accipit, qaam est apud eum qai traditt delivery ought to, and can, transfer nothing more to him who r&- ' ceives than is with him whp delivers.