title deed

noun

title deed

a deed or document evidencing a person's legal right or title to property, esp real property

First recorded in 1760–70

You could buy a small Massachusetts town and deliver the title deed to Harvard along with your kid’s application.

From Time

The answer came that California was held as a conquered province, and no title deed could be executed.

After-comers seeing the pick in the ground, consider it a good title-deed, and pass on to fresh spots.

But his researches in physical optics constitute his chief title-deed to immortality.

Your title deed to your farm rests upon your loyalty as citizens of the Republic.

Whenever you refuse to support the people of the Republic you have by your own act annulled the title deed of your land.

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