be manually given by the grantor to the grantee, yet this is not necessary. The real test of delivery is, did the grantor, by his acts or words, or both, intend to divest hin.- self of titles? If so, the deed is delivered. And it is now well settled that a deed may be delivered to a third person for the grantee, and if subsequently assented to by the grantee it will be as good a delivery as if handed to him in person; and any words or acts which show an intention to receive the title will be sufficient to prove the acceptance. 50 S. W. 39. Of Goods. Delivery of goods by a con- signor to a common carrier for account of a consignee amounts to a delivery and where a purchaser directs delivery of the goods for his account to a designated carrier the latter becomes his agent. Delivery by the con- signor, and acceptance by the consignee or his agent, of bills of lading issued by a com- mon carrier for goods, constitute a delivery. 207 U. S. 229. In Medical Jurisprudence. The act of a woman giving birth to her offspring. Pretended delivery may present itself in three points of view. First, when the female who feigns has never been pregnant. When thoroughly inves- tigated, this may always be detected. There are signs which must be present and cannot be feigned. An enlargement of the orifice of the uterus, and a tumefaction of the organs of generation, should always be present, and if absent are conclusive against the fact. 2 Annales d'Hygiène, 227. Second, when the pretended pregnancy and delivery have been preceded by one or more deliveries. In this case attention should be given to the following cir- cumstances: the mystery, if any, which has been affected with regard to the situation of the female; her age; that of her husband: and, particularly, whether aged or decrepit. Third, when the woman has been actually delivered, and substitutes a living for a dead child. But little evidence can be obtained on this subject from a physical examination, A Concealed delivery generally takes place when the woman either has destroyed her offspring or it was born dead. In suspected cases the following cir- cumstances should be attended to: First, the proofs of pregnancy which arise in consequence of the ex- amination of the mother. When she has been preg- nant, and has been delivered, the usual signs of delivery, mentioned below, will be present. careful investigation as to the woman's appearance before and since the delivery will have some weight; though such evidence is not always to be relied upon, as such appearances are not unfre- quently deceptive. Second, the proofs of recent delivery. Third, the connection between the sup- posed state of parturition and the state of the child that is found; for if the age of the child do not cor- respond to that time, it will be a strong circum- stance in favor of the mother's innocence. A redness of the skin and an attachment of the umbilical cord to the navel indicate a recent birth, Whether the child was living at its birth, belongs to the subject of infanticide. The usual signs of delivery are very well collected in Beck's excellent treatise on Medical Jurispru- dence, and are here extracted:- If the female be examined within three or four days after the occurrence of delivery, the following circumstances will generally be observed: greater or less weakness, a slight paleness of the face, the eye a little sunken and surrounded by a purplish or dark-brown colored ring, and a and a whiteness of the skin like that of a person nvalescing from disease. The belly is soft, the skin of the abdomen is lax, lies in folds, and is traversed in various directions by shin- ing reddish and whitish lines, which especially extend from the groin and pubes to the navel. These lines have sometimes been termed lines albi- cantes, and are particularly observed near the umbilical region, where the abdomen has experi- enced the greatest distension. The breasts become tumid and hard, and, on pressure, emit a fluid which at first is serous and afterwards gradually becomes whiter. The areole round the nipples are dark colored. The external genital organs and vagina are dilated and tumefied throughout the whole of their extent, from the pressure of the fœtus. The uterus may be felt through the abdominal parietes, voluminous, firm, and globular, and rising nearly as high as the umbilicus. Its orifice is soft and tumid, and dilated so as to admit two or more fingers. The fourchette, or anterior margin of the perinæum, is sometimes torn, or it is lax, and appears to have suffered considerable distension. A discharge (termed the lochial), commences from the uterus, which is distinguished from the menses by its pale color, its peculiar and well-known smell, and its duration. The lochia are at first of a red color, and gradually become lighter until they cease, These signs may generally be relied upon as indi- cating recent delivery: yet it requires much ex- perience in order not to be deceived by appearances. The