nd RELEASE, a species of conveyance used in the English law, first invented by Sergeant Moore, soon after the statute of uses, and now the most common of any, and therefore not to be shunned; though very great lawyers, (as particularly Mr Noy), have formerly doubted its validity. It is thus contrived. A lease, or rather bargain and sale, upon some pecuniary consideration, for one year, is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessor or bargainer. Now this, without any enrollment, makes the bargainer immediately annexes the possession. He therefore, being thus in possession, is capable of receiving a release of the freehold and reversion, which must be made to a tenant in possession; and accordingly, the next day, a release is granted to him. This is held to supply the place of livery of seisin; and so a conveyance by lease and release is said to amount to a feoffment.