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  1. A transaction in which a grantor transfers a subset of his or her own rights in property; the rights so transferred.
  2. To transfer rights in real or personal property; in litigation, accession by the court to a partyÂ’s request made by motion or pleading.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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