Lat. In the civU law. De-livery; transfer of possession; a derivative mode of acquiring, by which the owner of a corporeal thing, having the right and the will of aliening it, transfers it for a law-ful conslderatlon to the receiver. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 2, tit. 1, § 380
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)