deed
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Caltrans staff will next record the deed transferring the title from the state of California to Kai Poma, which is expected to happen any day, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Ms. Brown keeps yellowed documents from the farm’s early days, including the 1741 deed to the property from Lord Thomas Fairfax, who owned millions of acres in Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
That it hasn’t seems ironic, given that the Christian ideal of Jesus is in both word and deed a seeker of justice.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Canty, from Maldon, won the Euromillions prize with his partner, Katie Sullivan, on 5 May 2020, days after his Good Samaritan deed.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
The curb is the launching point for many a deed.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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“It was used to diminish me, silence me, isolate me and cast me and my independent thoughts, words and deeds as suspicious.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
"As a Buddhist, I was taught to only do good deeds and good things, right? It's like karma, as the saying goes, 'you reap what you sow,'" she said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Joint tenancies, living trusts, life estates and transfer-on-death deeds are no longer necessarily protected from recovery, depending on the circumstances.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The question is whether his deeds, and those of his president, can live up to it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
He was of such goodness that among the other laudable deeds attributed to him is this: in the fourteen years he ruled the empire, he never put anyone to death without a trial.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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“We have Intracoastal access, seven boat slips, and private deeded beach access,” Cameron said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
Rogers’ widow, Betty, deeded the ranch to the state just before her own death in 1944.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
The tribe was burdened with cleaning up decades of pollution before the land could be deeded into trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
He actually deeded it over to his brother who lives in South Carolina.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2023
It was originally deeded as “Good Luck,” but never quite lived up to the name.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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I settled my father’s estate, but found a will deeding a mobile home to his stepson.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
But in the Nov. 22 meeting, supervisor Mike Walls said the people who spoke against deeding the statue were proof that it is under threat.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
His chairmanship was a capstone of a long career serving his people, particularly as a spokesperson for his tribe and a leader in deeding the tribe’s first land into trust and developing a casino.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
More precisely, I thought about Lincoln signing a minor piece of legislation deeding the Yosemite Valley to the state of California.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2019
I have signed a paper to-night, deeding over to Isaac the little five-acre patch on the creek where he was born and where his father and grandfather were born.
From The Rose in the Ring by McCutcheon, George Barr
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