GRANT
To confer, give, or bestow. A gift of legal rights or privileges, or a recognition of asserted rights, as in treaty.
In the law of property, the term grant can be
used in a deed to convey land, regardless of the
number and types of rights conferred or the
promises made by the transferor to the trans-
feree. It is a comprehensive term that encom-
passes more specific words of transfer, such as
assign, bargain, and devise.
A public land grant is a conveyance of own-
ership or other rights and privileges in publicly
owned property to members of the general pub-
lic who come under the qualifications of the
statute that makes the land available. Such a
grant is ordinarily noted in a public record, such
as a charter or patent. In order to properly trace
the ownership of property, it is sometimes nec-
essary to determine each successive owner fol-
lowing the first grant.
A private grant is a grant of public land by a
public official to a private individual as a type of
