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 …showed first 75 words of 4010 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4010 total…words in tail without the words heirs of the body formerly necessary. And a settlor generally conveys as settlor, by which only a covenant for further assurance is implied under the Conveyancing Act 1881. Personal settlements are most often made upon marriage. The settled property is vested in trustees, either by the settlement itself, or in the case of cash, mortgage debts, stocks or shares, by previous delivery or transfer, upon trusts declared by the instrument.