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Deed(law)
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Deed(money)
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Grant Deed(law)
Deed Restrictions(money)
Deed Of Gift(law)

deed(2) (iou)



deed noun & verb. [di:d]

A. noun.
A thing done by a responsible agent; an act. OE.
take the will for the deed: see WILL noun1.
Shakespeare Julius Caesar They that have done this deed are honourable.
b. A brave, skilful, or conspicuous act; a feat. OE.
Tennyson Arthur yet had done no deed of arms. C. Caudwell Deeds of outstanding individual heroism.
c. A thing to be done, a contemplated task; duty. ME-L16.
Action, performance; actual fact. (Freq. contrasted with word.) OE.
in deed in action, in practice, in actual fact; earlier also in all senses of INDEED. in very deed arch. in undoubted effect or fact, in truth.
J. Ruskin The strength of Hercules is for deed not misdeed.
b. collect. Doings; ado, to-do. dial. E16.
Law. A written or printed instrument signed (and sealed and delivered) by the disposer, effecting some legal disposition such as the transfer of property or the creation of a contract. ME.
deed of association: see ASSOCIATION 1. deed of covenant: see COVENANT noun. deed of gift: see GIFT noun 2. title-deed: see TITLE noun.
B. Tarkington His father had never given Mabel a deed to her house.
Comb.: deed-box a strongbox for keeping deeds and other documents; deed poll [POLL adjective] a deed made and executed by one party only (so called because the paper is polled or cut even, not indented).
b. verb trans. Convey or transfer by legal deed. US. E19.
deedful adjective full of deeds, active, effective E17.
deedless adjective without action or deeds; performing no deeds, inactive: L16.