Title Deeds
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Those deeds which are evidences of the title of the owner of an estate. The person who is entitled to the inheritance has a right to the possession of the title-deeds; 1 Carr. & M. 653. A pledge of title deeds is as effectual as the pledge of any other chattel. They are, it is true, so far an accessory of the title to the land as to pass with it to the grantee, although not mentioned in the conveyance. But they are not inseparably attached to the title, and the owner of the land may sever them and dispose of them as chattels; Ames, Lectures on Leg. Hist. 256. As to a lien created by deposit of titledeeds, see Lien.