title-deed
(ˈtaɪt(ə)ldiːd)
A deed or document containing or constituting evidence of ownership. Also fig. (Most common in pl.)
| a 1768 Erskine Inst. Law Scot. i. vii. §24 Tutors..ought carefully to preserve the title-deeds of the minor's estate. 1830 Praed Poems (1865) I. 185 Your agent steals your title-deeds. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 393 It was..desirable that..this titledeed by which the King held his throne and the people their liberties, should be put into a strictly regular form. 1865 Kingsley Herew. ii, They..got to themselves lands by the title-deed of the sword. 1889 Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 224 He lost all his title deeds, the evidences and charters whereby he held his little estate. |