grant (grant)

[Early mod. E. also graunt; OF. granter, graanter, graaunter, graunter, gran tier (AF. granter, graunter ), greanter, the same (with irreg. change of e to g, perhaps due to a ociation with OF. garantir, guarantee) as OF. craanter, creanter, cranter, promise, a ure, guarantee, confirm, ratify, OF. creant ), ppr. of credere, believe, trust: see credent, credit, creant, creance.] I. trans. 1. To transfer the title or po e ion of in any formal way, specifically for a sufficient or valuable consideration; give or make over; especially, to convey by deed or writing. granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, Grant me the place of this threshing-floor. 1 Chron. xxi. 22. The commons... granted a tenth of the revenue and income not belonging to the lords of parliament; and the lords followed it up with a similar grant from their own property. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 370. 2599 The country west of the Connecticut was only known grants" at that time [1760] by the name of "New Hampshire Amer. Cyc., XVI. 318. 4. In law: (a) Originally, a creating or transferring by deed: used in reference to mere rights, estates in expectancy, and incorporeal property, which could not be delivered. Thus, easements, franchises, etc., were said to lie in grant, because they could not be created or transferred by livery or seizin. (b) In modern use, a conveyance in writing of such things as cannot pa or be transferred by word only, as land, rents, reversions, tithes, etc. Onias, having got a grant of the place,. erected a temple there, neither so big nor so costly as that at Jeru salem. Abp. U her, Annals. 5. An admi ion of something as true. This grant destroys all you have urg'd before. Dryden. 6. In brewing , a copper or iron ve el into which the wort flows from the clarifying battery, and from which it is lifted into the wort-pan. -Capitation grant. See capitation. =Syn. 3. Lar ge , Donation, etc. (see present , n.); allowance, stipend, bounty. grant2t, a. A Middle English form of grand . grantable (grån'ta-bl), a. [ grauntable , creant able , granter , etc., grant: see grant1 , v ., and- able .] Capable of being granted or conveyed. I will inquire, therefore, in what cases dispensations are grantable , and by whom. Bp. Sherlock, Charge (1769), p. 6. By coming to the Crown they became grantable in that way to the subject, and a great part of the church lands pa ed through the Crown to the people. Burke, Dormant Claims of the Church. to prayer or request. IMG:content-2581.png:[blocks in formation] Though attempered wepyng be graunted , outrageous wepyng certes is defended. Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 41. To a ent to; answer in the affirmative. She grauntede him; ther was noon other grace. Chaucer , Good Women, 1. 2666. grant: see grant1 and -eel.] In law, the person to whom anything is granted, or to whom a grant or conveyance is made. Was Shakspeare an Esquire? - He was the eldest son of a grantee of arms. Now, a grantee of arms is an esquire by letters patent. N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 369.