Deed

==Structure==
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The main clauses of a deed of conveyance are:
* Premises
** Parties clause – sets out the names, addresses, and descriptions (vendor/purchaser, grantor/grantee, transferor/transferee) of parties
** Recitals – narrates in chronological order the previous ownership of the property being conveyed, starting with the earliest deed of title down to the contract of sale the conveyance gives effect to
** Testatum – a command to witness which acknowledges the payment and receipt of the consideration and signals the beginning of the operative part; usually begins with "Now this Deed witnesseth"
* Operative part
** Operative clause – vendor gives effect to the contract of sale by conveying his interest in land to the purchaser
** [[Parcels clause]] – clause detailing the location and description of the property being conveyed
** Habendum – clause indicating the estate (freehold, etc.) or interest to be taken by the grantee<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor1-last=Rapalje|editor1-first=Stewart|editor2-last=Lawrence|editor2-first=Robert L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwAVAAAAYAAJ|encyclopedia=A Dictionary of American and English Law|title=Habendum|location=Jersey City, N.J.|publisher=F.D. Linn|year=1883|page=589|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124143149/https://books.google.com/books?id=OwAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover|archive-date=2018-01-24}}</ref>
** Tenendum – "to have and to hold", formerly referring to the tenure by which the estate granted was to be held, though now completely symbolic
** Reddendum – reserves something to grantor out of thing granted, such as rent, under the formula "yielding and paying".
** Conditions
** Warranty – grantor warrants the title to the grantee
*** general: when the warrant is against all persons
*** special: when it is only against the grantor, his heirs and those claiming under him
** Covenants – binding limitations or promises
* Conclusion (or [[eschatocol]]) – execution and date
** Testimonium (Scotland: ''testing clause'') – attests to the due execution of a deed or instrument.
*** Examples:
**** England & Wales: ''In Witness Whereof, the parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals''.
**** Ireland: ''In Witness Whereof the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals [the day and year first herein written]''.
**** Scotland: ''IN WITNESS WHEREOF these presents, consisting of this and the preceding pages, are subscribed by [me] at [place] on the [day] day of [month] Two thousand and [year] in the presence of [name] of [address]''.