Legal Dictionary

Tag: conveyancing

  • Delivery

    Delivery

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Delivery Meaning of Delivery The act by which the res or substance thereof is placed within the actual or constructive possession or control of another. In the sale of goods , delivery takes place when […]

  • Seal

    Originally, denoted wax or wafer with an impression. However, to constitute a valid seal, in modern times, neither wax, wafer nor other adhesive substance is now required. All that is needed is the impression and this may be visible by means of an indentation on the face of the […]

  • Gift

    A voluntary transfer of any thing made without consideration or expectation of consideration. The essential components of a valid completed gift of personal property are: competency of the donor to give the gift; voluntary intent on the part of the donor to make a gift; delivery […]

  • Mortgage

    Mortgage

    Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary) The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: An entity […]

  • Quit Claim

    A deed that conveys or releases the interest or title of the grantor in and to the property described in the deed as opposed to conveying the property itself. It is a deed which purports to convey only such title or interest as the grantor has. See Moelle v Sherwood, 148 U.S. 21, 13 S.Ct.…

  • Brief Op Title

    Brief op Title

  • Premises

    In strict technical sense, the term as applied to a deed means all the foreparts of the deed preceding the habendum and includes the date of the instrument , the parties to the same, the preliminary recitals , the consideration and the grant , release or other operative […]

  • Premises

    In strict technical sense, the term as applied to a deed means all the foreparts of the deed preceding the habendum and includes the date of the instrument , the parties to the same, the preliminary recitals , the consideration and the grant , release or other operative […]

  • To Engross

    To Engross

  • To Engross

    To Engross

  • Partition

    A division between several persons of property which belongs to them as coowners; may be compulsory as per judicial process or voluntary . severance of the unity of possession or title or both, between coowners, enabling them to hold severally their respective shares.

  • Assurance

    Pledge , guaranty or surety . A declaration tending to inspire full confidence . In conveyancing, means a conveyance , a transfer or an assignment . insurance .

  • Confirmation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Confirmation Meaning of Confirmation To make firm, or certain, to render valid that which is void, voidable , to give new assurance of truth or certainty, to ratify. It is said that confirmation supplies […]

  • Concord

    An agreement, or supposed agreement, between the parties in levying a fine of lands, in which the deforciant (or he who keeps the- other out of possession) acknowledges that the lands in question are the right of the complainant, and from the acknowledgment or admission of right thus […]

  • Concord

    An agreement, or supposed agreement, between the parties in levying a fine of lands, in which the deforciant (or he who keeps the- other out of possession) acknowledges that the lands in question are the right of the complainant, and from the acknowledgment or admission of right thus […]