{"id":253,"date":"2023-11-13T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalpedia.ai\/articles\/uncategorized\/what-is-delivery-an-overview-of-this-vital-legal-concept\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T19:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:23:51","slug":"what-is-delivery-an-overview-of-this-vital-legal-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalpedia.ai\/articles\/what-is-delivery-an-overview-of-this-vital-legal-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Delivery? An Overview of This Vital Legal Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delivery is the completion of a legal transfer of possession, title, or interest &#8211; the formal act of passing ownership from one party to another.<\/p>\n<p> Delivery can be implied or explicit. Implied delivery means that the transfer of ownership has occurred without any physical exchange &#8211; for example, a mutual agreement between two parties that ownership has changed. 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