Title Deeds
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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 Car. & M. 653.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
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.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Deeds which constitute or are the evidence of title to lands.
Defined under Title in Black's Law Dictionary.