History of Conveyancing

WITH LIVERY OF SEISIN
THE RICH HISTORY OF ENGLISH CONVEYANCING
GPR 211
In English law, the art or science of conveying or effecting the transfer of property, or modifying interests in relation to property, by means of written documents.
In early legal systems the main element in the transfer of property was the change, generally accompanied by some public ceremony, in the actual physical possession: the ~~ function of documents, where used, being merely the preservation of evidence. Thus, in Great Britain in the feudal period, the common mode of conveying an immediate freehold was by feof…