{"id":360178,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/delivery.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"delivery","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/delivery.html","title":{"rendered":"Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><i>pl:<\/i> <b>-er&#183;ies<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> an act that shows a transferor&#8217;s intent to make a transfer of property (as a gift) <br \/>  <i>;esp<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> the transfer of possession or exclusive control of property to another <\/p>\n<p><b>actual delivery<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a delivery (as by hand or shipment) of actual physical property (as jewelry or stock certificates) <\/p>\n<p><b>conditional delivery<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a delivery after which ownership will be transferred upon fulfillment of a condition compare <i>gift causa mortis<\/i> at <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/gift.html\">gift<\/a> <i>NOTE: A conditional delivery is usually made in order to make a transfer revocable. <\/i> <\/p>\n<p><b>constructive delivery<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a delivery of a representation of property (as a written instrument) or means of possession (as a key) that is construed by a court as sufficient to show the transferor&#8217;s intent or to put the property under the transferee&#8217;s control called also <i>symbolic delivery<\/i> <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Delivery&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-360178","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/360178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=360178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}