deed
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Details about who ultimately will hold the deed to the 35-acre property weren’t made public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
It will not have its own address, tax parcel or deed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Officials contend the discrepancy between the computer count and the paper tally is “a good deed that went punished” — the result of exhausted officials being handed an extra-credit project they couldn’t quite execute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Having been enjoyably candid about his goals for the summer - smashing a 27-year-old standard and winning Games gold - Kerr concedes there is relief about following word with deed.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
This was the assassin’s first chance to describe his deed, and the actor in him probably made the most of the dramatic story.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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Rantzen also devised and presented Hearts of Gold, a programme that celebrated previously unknown people who had been responsible for good deeds.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Or can we simply use the transfer-on-death deeds for the house and car, and use the life insurance to pay for funeral costs?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Not many recall his reported invocation of another work of Sanskrit poetry that reads, “In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame/The good deeds a man has done before defend him.”
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Every year new movies and TV shows dramatising Mao's life beam the message of his great deeds to public.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
In effect, as a hero who’d come to the island and performed great deeds, he’d become part of the Icelandic sagas.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Keys come with deeded ownership to a sliver of non-buildable beachfront.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
If this property is indeed still titled in your parents’ names, and was never actually deeded to the trust, it could still be a probate asset under the executor’s control.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
The federal government eventually deeded the lighthouse to Del Norte County, which now leases it to the nonprofit for $1 a month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
Armed Puyallup activists occupy Cushman Hospital in Tacoma for a week and succeed in getting it deeded to the tribe.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
“He has deeded me the house,” said Miss Love.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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“I’m wondering, have you ever planned on deeding any of your personal property or property of the Smithsonian to any of these tribes?” he asked Hartig.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
I settled my father’s estate, but found a will deeding a mobile home to his stepson.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
The deeding of the land, which was given to the commonwealth in the 19th century, was a request from the city so that the parcel could come under local control, Yarmosky said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
Future presidents followed FDR's example by raising funds to build libraries and deeding their papers to the National Archives, a framework codified in the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2020
The farce of deeding the corporation's sections to these fictitious purchasers was solemnly gone through with at Ruggles's office, the Railroad guaranteeing them possession.
From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris
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