sale of land

sale of land
An actual transfer of title to the land from grantor to grantee by an appropriate instrument of conveyance executed for a consideration in money or the equivalent of money. Keogh v Peck, 316 Ill 318, 147 NE 266, 38 ALR 1151. An effective transfer of the equitable title to real estate from vendor to vendee under a contract of sale. 55 Am J1st V & P § 356. See land contract.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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