GRANT

From Agepedia

GRANT, in law; a gift in writing of such a thing as cannot be passed or conveyed by word only, as a grant is the regular method, by the common law, of transferring the property of incorporeal hereditaments, or such things whereof no actual delivery of possession can be had. The operative words in grants are dedi et concessi (I have given and granted) Grants may be void by uncertainty, impossibility, being against law, or a mode to defraud creditors, &c.