Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Administrator 's deed.
See Deed
Bargain-and-sale deed.
see deed.
Counterdeed
A secret deed, executed either before a notary or under a private seal, that voids, invalidates, or alters a public deed.
absolute deed
A deed that conveys title without condition or encumbrance. - Also termed deed absolute.
administrator's deed
A document that conveys property owned by a person who has died intestate.
administrator's deed.
See DEED.
bargain-and-sale deed
A deed that conveys property to a buyer for valuable consideration but that lacks any guarantee from the seller about the validity of the title. See BARGAIN AND SALE.
bond for a deed
See bond for land under BOND (2).
bond for deed
See CONVEYANCE (6), BOND FOR TITLE.
commissioner of deeds
An officer authorized by a state to take acknowledgments of deeds and other papers while residing in another state. ( The acknowledgments are recognized in the state that licensed the commissioner. Cf. NOTARY PUBLIC.
composition deed
A deed reflecting the terms of an agreement between a debtor and a creditor to discharge or adjust a debt.
composition deed.
See DEED.
contract for deed
A conditional sales contract for the sale of real property. - Also termed installment land contract; land sales contract; land contract.
covenant in deed
See express covenant.
deed
n. 1. Something that is done or carried out; an act or action. 2. A written instrument by which land is conveyed. 3. At common law, any written instrument that is signed, sealed, and delivered and that conveys some interest in property. - deed, ub. Cf. CONVEYANCE; BILL OF SALE. "A deed is a writing sealed and delivered. For if either a parchment without writing be delivered a5 one's deed, yet it is not his deed, though an obligation be afterwards written in it: or if it be a writing but not sealed at the time of the delivery of it as his deed, it is a scrole and not his deed. Or if I make and seal a deed, and the party take it without my delivery, I may plead it is not my deed." Sir Henry Finch, Law, or a Discourse Thereof 108 (1759). "All deeds are documents, but not all documents are deeds. For instance, a legend chalked on a brick wall, or a writing tattooed on a sailor's back may be documents but they are not deeds. A deed is, therefore, a particular kind of document. It must be a writing and a writing on paper or its like, e.g., vellum or parchment. Any instrument under seal is a deed if made between private persons. It must be signed, sealed, and delivered. A deed must either (a) effect the transference of an interest, right or property, or (b) create an obligation binding on some person or persons, or (c) confirm some act whereby an interest, right, or property has already passed." Gerald Dworkin, Odgers' Construction of Deeds and Statutes 1 (5th ed. 1967).
deed absolute
See absolute deed.
deed box.
Archaic. A box in which deeds of land title are traditionally kept. a Such a box is considered an heirloom in the strict sense. See HEIRLOOM (1).
deed in fee
A deed conveying the title to land in fee simple, usu. with covenants.
deed in lieu of foreclosure
A deed by which a borrower conveys fee-simple title to a lender in satisfaction of a mortgage debt and as a substitute for foreclosure. ( This deed is often referred to simply as "deed in lieu."
deed of agency
A revocable, voluntary trust for payment of a debt.
deed of covenant
A deed to do something, such as a document providing for periodic payments by one party to another (usu. a charity) for tax-saving purposes. ( The transferor can deduct taxes from the payment and, in some cases, the recipient can reclaim the deducted tax.
deed of crime
See ACTUS REUS.
deed of distribution
A fiduciary's deed conveying a decedent's real estate.
deed of feoffment
See FEOFFMENT.
deed of gift
A deed executed and delivered without consideration. - Also termed gratuitous deed.
deed of inspectorship
Hist. An instrument reflecting an agreement between a debtor and creditor to appoint a receiver to oversee the winding-up of the debtor's affairs on behalf of the creditor.
deed of partition
A deed that divides land held by joint tenants, tenants in common, or coparceners.
deed of release
A deed that surrenders full title to a piece of property upon payment or performance of specified conditions.
deed of separation
An instrument governing a spouse's separation and maintenance.
deed of settlement
1. A deed to settle something, such as the distribution of property in a marriage. 2. English law. A deed formerly used to form a joint-stock company.
deed of trust
A deed conveying title to real property to a trustee as security until the grantor repays a loan. ( This type of deed resembles a mortgage. - Also termed trust deed; trust indenture.
deed poll
A deed made by and binding on only one party, or on two or more parties having similar interests. ( It is so called be cause, traditionally, the parchment was "polled" (that is, shaved) so that it would be even at the top (unlike an indenture). - Also spelled deed poll. Cf. INDENTURE.
deed to lead uses
A common-law deed prepared before an action for a fine or common recovery to show the object of those actions.
deed without covenants
See quitclaim deed under DEED.
defeasible deed
A deed containing a condition subsequent causing title to the property to revert to the grantor or pass to a third ply.
delivery of deed
The placing of a deed in the grantee's hands or within the grantee's control. e By this act, the grantor shows an intention that the deed operates immediately as a conveyance.
deposit of title deeds
A pledge of real property as security for a loan, by placing with the lender, as pledgee, the title-deed to the land.
disentailing deed
8ist. A tenant-in-tail's assurance that the estate tail will be barred and converted into an estate in fee. 0 The Fines and Recoveries Act (3 & 4 Will. 4 ch. 74) introduced this way of barring an entail. It authorized nearly every tenant in tail, if certain conditions were met, to dispose of the land in fee simple absolute and thus to defeat the rights of all persons claiming under the tenant.
estoppel by deed
Estoppel that prevents a party to a deed from denying anything recited in that deed if the party has induced another to accept or act under the deed; esp., estoppel that prevents a grantor of a warranty deed, who does not have title at the time of the conveyance but who later acquires title, from denying that he or she had title at the time of the transfer. See AFTER-ACQUIRED-TITLE DOCTRINE.
full-covenant-and-warranty deed
See warranty deed.
general warranty deed
See warranty deed.
gift deed
A deed given for a nominal sum or for love and affection.
grant deed
A deed containing, or having implied by law, some but not all of the usual covenants of title; esp., a deed in which the grantor warrants that he or she (1) has not previously conveyed the estate being granted, (2) has not encumbered the property except as noted in the deed, and (3) will convey to the grantee any title to the property acquired after the date of the deed.
grant deed.
See DEED.
gratuitous deed
See deed of gift under DEED.
latent deed
See DEED.
matter in deed
1. A matter that can be proved by a writing under seal. 2. See matter o f fact.
mineral deed
A conveyance of an interest in the minerals in or under the land.
mortgage deed
The instrument creating a mortgage. ( A mortgage deed typically must contain (1) the name of the mortgagor, (2) words of grant or conveyance, (3) the name of the mortgagee, (4) a property description sufficient to identify the mortgaged premises, (5) the mortgagor's signature, and (6) an acknowledgment. To be effective and binding, a mortgage deed must also be delivered.
quitclaim deed
A deed that conveys a grantor's complete interest or claim in certain real property but that neither warrants