(v. t.) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.
(v. t.) Illustrious act; achievement; exploit.
(v. t.) Power of action; agency; efficiency.
(v. t.) Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.
(v. t.) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.
(v. t.) Performance; -- followed by of.
(v. t.) To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(2) Philip and Roger Taylor-Brown, who have been together for three years and have already changed their names by deed poll, registered in Manchester yesterday for a ceremony on December 21.
(3) Every day laws are changed, or new laws are voted in, to legitimise illegal deeds.
(4) The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven years of Thatcher's reign, feared an avalanche of "bile" would "spew" from its pages and decided to keep comments closed, according to insiders.
(5) 'We need deeds, not words': bombs fall on Aleppo as MPs debate Syria Read more He also chided the UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for calling for demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in London , saying it was necessary to be mindful of the welfare of diplomatic staff in Britain’s Moscow embassy.
(6) Rhodes was probably one of the worst colonisers both in word and deed.
(7) Anti-radicalisation is the whole community’s responsibility to deal with, not just the Muslim community.” Other critics point to provisions in the funding deed for the directory that allow the department to disclose confidential information about participants “to the responsible minister or prime minister”, or to a parliamentary committee.
(8) The Labour party is becoming a movement of words not deeds.
(9) I act with deeds and words, because the government seems determined to resurrect the old Victorian approach to disabled people.
(10) "The true test is not Rouhani's words, but rather the deeds of the Iranian regime, which continues to aggressively advance its nuclear programme while Rouhani is giving interviews," said the response, issued on Thursday after an interview the Iranian president granted to the American network NBC.
(11) Marcos would hold the deed and leave the space blank.
(12) Theoretically, a morality of aspiration involves assigning more credit for a good deed than blame for a corresponding bad deed; a morality of duty involves assigning more blame than credit.
(13) That’s not only because they hold so many title deeds, but also because modern governments are given to wringing their hands and declaring their own impotence in the face of multinationals.
(14) The FBI are sceptical that Pyongyang was responsible, and the government there denies that it had any involvement, even if it describes the hack as “a righteous deed”.
(15) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
(16) As the number of dirty affairs, corruption, unlawful arms trades and extrajudicial killings go up, the journalists who write or that have the potential to write about these deeds become targets.
(17) Cake is for leaving parties, not the actual deed itself.
(18) Trolls are not often in a rush to discuss their behaviour with a stranger who might spill their darkest deeds to the world.
(19) Nevertheless, attention will now inevitably shift the focus towards next week's ECB rate meeting to see if Mr Draghi’s deeds match his rhetoric, or whether he is simply trying to buy more time for when the ESM becomes available.
(20) That means "no longer romanticising terrorists as Robin Hoods and no longer idealising their deeds as rough poetic justice".
Defeasance
Definition:
(n.) A defeat; an overthrow.
(n.) A rendering null or void.
(n.) A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here are some tax techniques used by different companies over the years • Cross-border tax arbitrage • Hybrid debt instruments • Hybrid entities • Thin capitalisation • Thick capitalisation • Debt dumping • Loss buying • Outward domestication • Corporate inversions • Tax-efficient supply chain management • Intangibles fragmentation • Dividend buying • Company migrations • Dividend traps • Dutch sandwich • Swiss roundabout (long obsolete) • Value shifting • Defeased leasing • Capital allowance buying • Rent factoring • This article was amended on Thursday 5 February 2009.
(2) (2) This presumption of the family's dominant role in decision making is defeasible: protection of the patient's rights requires that decisions be made within a framework that allows vigorous discussion and accoutability through impartial review and that provides for legal intervention when necessary.
(3) For their part, animal rightists should acknowledge that rights, however basic, are also defeasible by appeals to consequences.