Grant

Grant, in English law, the conveyance of property by deed. Movables are granted when they are comprised in a bill of sale or deed of gift. Incorporeal hereditaments, and interests in land not involving actual possession, were also said to lie in grant; but a freehold in possession could only be conveyed by livery of seisin—i.e. by solemn delivery of possession. The Real Property Act of 1845 enacted that the immediate freehold might be conveyed by deed of grant. It is no longer necessary to use the word 'grant;' other words, such as 'convey,' will have the same effect. A grant of the reversion of land under lease was formerly completed by the lessee attorning (becoming) tenant to the grantee; but the necessity for attorning is now abolished. In the United States generally livery of seisin is dispensed with, and the term 'grant' applies to all transfers of real property.