turf and twig

turf and twig
A clod of turf, or a twig or bough growing on the land, the usual symbolic means by which livery of seisin was effected, one of these being delivered on the land by the feoffor to the feoffee. See 2 Bl Comm 315.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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