the act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.-the unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.-hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.-an unwritten code of law represented to have been given by god to moses on sinai.-that body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.-to transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.