grant

Noun: A conveyance or transfer of real property, especially of public lands. The conferring of something by one person upon another. Nicholas & Co. v United States, 249 US 34, 39, 63 L Ed 461, 465, 39 S Ct 218. As the term appears in a treaty: –any concession, warrant, order, or permission to survey, possess, or settle, whether evidenced by writing or parol, or presumed from possession. Strother v Lucas (US) 12 Pet 410, 9 L Ed 1137. Verb: A word of conveyance or transfer. An apt word of conveyance, effective to create a covenant to stand seised. 28 Am J2d Est §§ 255-257. The word is not a technical word like the word "enfeoff," and although, if used broadly, without limitation or restriction, it would carry an estate or interest in the thing granted, still it may be used in a more restricted sense, and be so limited that the grantee will take but a mere naked trust or power to dispose of the thing granted, and to apply the proceeds arising out of it to the use and benefit of the grantor. Rice v Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad Co. (US) 1 Black 358, 17 L Ed 147, 153. See capitation grant; congressional grant; devise and grant; glue; give, grant, bargain, etc.; grant, bargain and sell; grantor; grant to uses; hereby granted; inclusive grant; lie in grant; lost grant; office grant; presumed grant; railroad grant; recession; regrant; reservation; right of way by grant; royal grant.