GRANT, in law, the transfer of property by an instrument in writing, termed a deed of grant. According to the old rule of com mon law, the immediate freehold in corporeal hereditaments lay in livery (see FEOFFMENT), whereas incorporeal hereditaments, such as a reversion, remainder, advowson, etc., lay in grant, that is, passed by the delivery of the deed of conveyance or grant without further ceremony. The distinction between property ly ing in livery and in grant is now abolished, the Real Property Act 1845 providing that all corporeal tenements and hereditaments shall be transferable as well by grant as by livery. What in many other countries is termed a "concession" is in England usually called a "grant."