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deed
noun as in achievement
noun as in legal paper assigning property; contract
Example Sentences
The following year, he said: “I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria,” using the name used by many in Israel for the area which became the occupied West Bank when it was captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.
“To correct for this, the couple could purchase the property with a deed that provisions that property is owned with a joint right of survivorship, which reproduces the automatic protection a married couple has when purchasing a property.”
“The adults brought this child along to do a bad deed, and let her suffer all the consequences.”
In Baltimore, meanwhile, Question F gives voters the option to rezone the city’s Inner Harbor, removing deed restrictions on 4.5 acres of parkland and allowing the fading Harborplace mall to be redeveloped as a mixed-use area.
A class-action lawsuit alleged that the VA had failed in its duty to provide adequate housing for disabled veterans and that its leases of portions of the 388-acre campus for other purposes violated the 1888 deed of the land to the U.S. government for the “establishment, construction and permanent maintenance” of a home for disabled soldiers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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