A ceremony which ac-companied the grant of lands ln the feudal ages, and consisted in the open and notorious delivery of possession in the presence of the other vassals, which perpetuated among them the ara of their new acquisition at the time when the art of writing was very little known; and thus the evidence of the property was reposed in the memory of the neigh* borhood, who, in case of disputed title, were afterwards called upon to decide upon lt. Brown