单词 | title-deed |
释义 | title-deed|ˈtaɪt(ə)ldiːd| A deed or document containing or constituting evidence of ownership. Also fig. (Most common in pl.)
a1768Erskine Inst. Law Scot. i. vii. §24 Tutors..ought carefully to preserve the title-deeds of the minor's estate. 1830Praed Poems (1865) I. 185 Your agent steals your title-deeds. 1855Macaulay 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. 1865Kingsley Herew. ii, They..got to themselves lands by the title-deed of the sword. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 224 He lost all his title deeds, the evidences and charters whereby he held his little estate. |

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