70-1-510. Delivery to grantee necessarily absolute. A grant cannot be delivered to the grantee conditionally. Delivery to the grantee or to the grantee's agent is necessarily absolute, and the instrument takes effect upon delivery, discharged of any condition on which the delivery is made.

     History: En. Sec. 1454, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 4598, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6845, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 1056; Field Civ. C. Sec. 467; re-en. Sec. 6845, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 67-1511; amd. Sec. 2055, Ch. 56, L. 2009.