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Dedi et concessi (I have given and granted), the operative words in grants, etc. The word 'give' or the word 'grant' in a deed, executed after the 1st October, 1845, does not imply any covenant in law in respect of any tenements or hereditaments, except so far as the word 'give' or the word 'grant' may, by force of any Act of Parliament, imply a covenant, Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 4, reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 59. Under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 18), s. 132, and in conveyances to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, the covenants for title are implied in the word 'grant.'