grant
Let an agent explain property grants and conveyancing in general terms, including historical land grants, and point to registries and lawyers, without legal advice on individual transactions.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Instrument Which grant.
Type
Deed or patent.
Type
Grant type.
- What type of grant or conveyance is it? definition
- What interest does it transfer, in general terms? definition
Parties
Grantor and grantee.
Parties
Parties.
- Who are the grantor and grantee, according to the document? provenance
- Is it registered? provenance
History Historical grants.
Land grants
Government grants.
Land grants
Historical land grants.
- Where are records of historical land grants held? provenance
- How can they be searched? action
Appanage
Royal grants.
Appanage
Appanages.
- What were appanages, according to historians? provenance
- Which examples are documented? provenance
Practice Conveyancing today.
Registry
Recording.
Registry
Registration.
- How is a grant or transfer registered here? provenance
- Which authority keeps the register? provenance
Advice
Lawyers.
Advice
Advice limit.
- Is the user asking about their own property transaction? boundary
- How should they be referred to a lawyer or notary? action
Senses Disambiguation.
Funding
Grants of money.
Funding
Funding sense.
- Is a research or funding grant meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Fraud
Fake deeds.
Fraud
Deed fraud.
- Could this deed or transfer be fraudulent? boundary
- How can the registry be checked? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.possession
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ECO
- Facets: substance
- social
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- assignment, appanage, apanage, land grant
What it is Filled
In law, a transfer of property by deed or other instrument of conveyance, such as land grants by governments, grants of rights or historical appanages given to members of royal families; the grantor transfers an interest to the grantee.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain property grants and conveyancing in general terms, including historical land grants, and point to registries and lawyers, without legal advice on individual transactions.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Transfer of property interest
- Formal legal instrument
- Recorded in registries
- Historical and modern forms
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Give legal advice on a specific grant or title.
- Draft or alter deeds to deceive or defraud.
- Present historical grants as overriding current law or Indigenous rights without legal basis.
- Confuse a grant of property with a funding grant.
Only with a human decision
- Executing or registering a conveyance.
- Resolving disputes over title.
May
- Explain what a grant of property is in general terms, citing the law of the jurisdiction.
- Find grants in public land records it is authorized to search.
Moral aspects Filled
- Land grants have been used to dispossess Indigenous and local peoples.
- Deed fraud can take homes from their owners.
Who is affected
- Grantors and grantees
- Indigenous peoples
- Current occupiers
Owners Filled
Steward
The grantor and grantee; the land registry records the conveyance.
Master systems
- Land registry or cadastre
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-13273872-n - registry parent class
related
- transfer of property - category
- land registry - record
- deed - instrument
- grant (funding) - another sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.grant-possession
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13275136-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Grantor and grantee
- Deeds and land patents
- Funding grants are a different sense
- Deeds, patents, charters and registry entries.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain grants and conveyances in general terms
- find records of historical land grants
- find land registry information
- separate funding grants and other senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving legal advice
- Fraudulent deeds
- Confusing senses
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National property and conveyancing law
- Land registration law
Context of use required Filled
- Transferring property rights.
- deeds of conveyance
- government land grants and patents
- assignments of rights
- historical appanages
- easement grants
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13275136-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: grant - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should grant types be separate entries?
- How should historical grants be linked?
- How should funding grants be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-grant-possession/spec.json