transfer

verb

To convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another; pass or hand over from one to another; specifically, to change over the possession or control of (as, to transfer a title to land). To sell or give. Chappell v. State, 216 Ind. 666, 25 N.E.2d 999, 1001

noun

An act of the parties, or of the law, by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another. The sale and every other method, direct or indirect, of disposing of or parting with property or with an interest therein, or with the possession thereof, or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest therein, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily or involuntarily, by or without judicial proceedings, as a conveyance, sale, payment, pledge, mortgage, lien, encumbrance, gift, security or otherwise. The word is one of general meaning and may include the act of giving property by will. Hayter v. Fern Lake Fishing Club, Tex.Civ.App., 318 S.W.2d 912, 915.

The assignment or conveyance of property, including an instrument or document, that vests in the transferee such rights as the transferor had therein.

See U.C.C. No.No. 3-201(1) & 7-504(1).

Transfer is the all-encompassing term used by the Uniform Commercial Code to describe the act which passes an interest in an instrument to another. Scheid v. Shields, 269 Or. 236, 524 P.2d 1209, 1210.

Transfer means every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, of disposing of or parting with property or with an interest in property, including retention of title as a security interest and foreclosure of the debtor's equity of redemption. Bankruptcy Code No. 101.

See barter

- constructive transfer

- exchange

- gift

- sale

- will