What is DEED?

A sealed instrument, containing a contract or covenant, delivered by the party to be bound thereby, and
accepted by the party to whom the contract or covenant runs. A writing containing a contract sealed
and delivered to the party thereto. 3 Washb.Real Prop. 239. In its legal sense, a deed is
an instrument in writing, upon paper or parchment, between parties able to contract, subscribed,
sealed, and delivered. Insurance Co. v.Avery, 00 Ind. 572; 4 Kent, Comm. 452. In a more restricted sense,
a written agreement, signed, sealed, and delivered, by which one person conveys land, tenements,
or hereditaments to another. This is its ordinary modern meaning. Sanders v. Riedinger. 30 App. Div.
277. 51 N. Y. Supp. 937:Reed v. Hazleton, 37 Kan. 321. 15 Pac. 177; Dudley v. Sunnier. 5 Mass. 470;
Fisher v.Pender, 52 N. C. 485. The term is also used as synonymous with fact, actuality, or act of
parties.Thus a thing in deed is one that has been really or expressly done; as opposed to inlaw,
which means that it is merely implied or presumed to have been done.

Law Dictionary: What is DEED? definition of DEED (Black's Law Dictionary)

What is COUNTER-DEED?

A secret writing, either before a notary or under a private seal, which destroys, invalidates, or alters a
public one.

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What is CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT?

The certificate of a notary public, justice of the peace, or other authorized officer, attached to a deed,
mortgage, or other instrument, setting forth that the parties thereto personally appeared before him on
such a date and acknowledged the instrument to be their free and voluntary act and deed. Read v. Loan
Co., OS Ohio, St. 2S0, 07 N. E. 729, 62 L. R. A. 790, 96 Am. St Rep. 663.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Black's Law Dictionary)

What is RECONVEYANCE?

takes place where a mortgage debt is paid off, and the mortgaged property is conveyed again to the
mortgagor or his representatives free from the mortgage debt. Sweet.

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What is TITLE?

The radical meaning of this word appears to be that of a mark, style, or designation; a distinctive
appellation; the way by which anything is known. Thus, in the law of persons, a title is an appellation of
dignity or distinction, a name denoting the social rank of the person bearing it; as duke or count. So,
in legislation, the title of a statute is the heading or preliminary part, furnishing the name by which the
act is individually known. It is usually prefixed to the statute in the form of a brief summary of its
contents; as An act for the prevention of gaming. Again, the title of a patent is the short description of
the invention, which is copied in the letters patent from the inventors petition; c. g., a new and
improved method of drying and preparing malt. Johns. Pat. Man. 90. In the law of trademarks, a title
may become a subject of property; as one who has adopted a particular title for a newspaper, or other
business enterprise, may, by long and prior user, or by compliance with statutory provisions as
to registration and notice, acquire a right to be protected in tlie exclusive use of it Abbott. The title of a
book, or any literary composition. is its name; that is, the heading or caption prefixed to it, and
disclosing the distinctive appellation by which it is to be known. This usually comprises a
brief description of its subject-matter and the name of its author. Title is also used as the name of one
of the subdivisions employed in many literary works, standing intermediate between the divisions
denoted by the term books or parts, and those designated as chapters and sections. In real
property law. Title is the means whereby the owner of lands has the just possession of his property. Co.
Litt 345; 2 Bl. Comm. 195. Title is the mean whereby a persons right to property is established. Code Ga.
1S82.

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What is LEGAL TITLE?

Legal ownership of an asset or property specified as a clear and enforceable title.

Law Dictionary: What is LEGAL TITLE? definition of LEGAL TITLE (Black's Law Dictionary)

What is ENFORCEABLE?

This term is in a contract and means something is enforceable to perform or to execute.

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What is EQUITABLE TITLE?

The portion of control that a buyer has while a party in a contract for deed or an installment contract for
the property; the ability to gain full control and title to property while someone else owns legal title.

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What is BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP?

When an entity holds voting control by owning more than 5% of the publicly offered shares of a
company. This must be reported on a Schedule 13D under Section 12 of the according to the Securities
& Exchange Commission.

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Dictionary)

What is OWNERSHIP?

The complete dominion, title, or proprietary right in a thing or claim. See .

Law Dictionary: What is OWNERSHIP? definition of OWNERSHIP (Black's Law Dictionary)

What is PROPRIETARY?

Items that are sold, made or offered under copyright, patent or trade secrets laws by the rightful
owner. Proprietary items are usually unique and will contain different components to a competitors
product.

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What is BENEFICIAL OWNER?

The actual owner of securities and the rightful recipient of the benefits accorded; the beneficial owner is
often different from the title holder (generally a financial institution holding the securities on behalf
of clients).

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What is IN PROPRIA PERSONA?

In ones own proper person.In quo quis delinquit, in eo de jure est puniendus. In whatever thing one
offends, in that is he rightfully to be punished. Co. Litt. 2336; Wing. Max. 204, max. 58. The punishment
shall have relation to the nature of the offense.

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Dictionary)

What is ROYALTY?

A payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine, or similar right, and payable
proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. See Raynolds v. Hanna (C. C.) 55 Fed. 800;
Hubenthal v. Kennedy, 76 Iowa, 707, 39 N. W. 694; Western Union Tel. Co. v. American Bell Tel. Co., 125
Fed. 342, 60 C. C. A. 220. Royalty also sometimes means a payment which is made to an author or
composer by an assignee or licensee in respect of each copy of his work which is sold, or to an in- ventor
in respect of each article sold under the patent. Sweet

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What is TREATY?

In international law. An agreement between two or more independent states. Brande. An agreement,
league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners
properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns or the supreme power of each
state. Webster; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 5 Pet. 00, 8 L. Ed. 25; Edye v. Robertson, 112 U. S. 5S0, 5
Sup. Ct. 247, 28 L. Ed. 798; Holmes v. Jennison. 14 Pet. 571, 10 L. Ed. 579; U. S. v. Rauscher, 119 U. S.
407, 7 Sup. Ct. 234, 30 L. Ed. 425; Ex parte Ortiz (C. C.) 100 Fed. 902. In private law, treaty signifies the
discussion of terms which immediately precedes the conclusion of a contract or other transaction. A
warranty on the sale of goods, to be valid, must be made during the treaty preceding the sale. Chit.
Cont. 419; Sweet.

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FREE WHITE PERSONS. "Free white persons" referred to in Naturalization Act, as amended by Act July
14, 1870, has meaning naturally given t& it when first used in 1 Stat. 103, c. 3, meaning all persons
belonging to the European races then commonly counted as white, and their descendants, including
such descendants in other countries to which they have emigrated. It includes all European Jews, more
or less intermixed with peoples of Celtic, Scandinavian, Teutonic, Iberian, Latin, Greek, and Slavic
descent. It includes Magyars, Lapps, and Finns, and the Basques and Albanians. It includes the mixed
Latin, Celtic-Iberian, and Moorish inhabitants of Spain and Portugal, the mixed Greek, Latin, Phoenician,
and North African inhabitants of Sicily, and the mixed Slav and Tarter inhabitants of South Russia. It does
not mean Caucasian race, Aryan race, or IndoEuropean races, nor the mixed Indo-European, Dravidian,
Semitic and Mongolian peoples who inhabit Persia. A. Syrian of Asiatic birth and descent will not be
entitled to become a naturalized citizen of the United States as being a free white person. Ex parte
Shahid, D.C.S.C., 205 F. 812, 813; United States v. Cartozian, D.C.Or., 6 F.2d 919, 921; Ex parte Dow,
D.C.S.C., 211 F. 486, 487; In re En Sk Song, D.C.Cal., 271 F. 23. Nor a native-born Filipino. U. S. v. Javier,
22 F.2d 879, 880, 57 App.D.C. 303. Nor a native of India who belonged to Hindu race. Kharaitf Ram
Samras v. United States, C.C.A.Cal., 125 F.2d 879, 881.

What is TRUE?

Conformable to fact; correct; exact; actual; genuine; honest "In one sense, that only is true which is
conformable to the actual state of things. In that sense, a statement is untrue which does not express
things exactly as they are. Rut in another and broader sense, the word 'true' is often used as a synonym
of 'honest,' 'sincere,' 'not fraudulent.' " Moulor v. American L. Ins. Co.. Ill U. S. 345, 4 Sup. Ct. 400, 28 L.
Ed. 447.

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What is CERTIFIED?

A qualification or attribute meaning to being officially attested or authoritatively confirmed as being

genuine or true as represented, or complying or meeting specified requirements or standards.
A certificate may or may accompany this qualification.

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What is ALLODIUM?

Land held absolutely in one's own right, and not of any lord or superior; land not subject to feudal duties
or burdens. An estate held by absolute ownership, without recognizing any superior to whom any duty
is due on account thereof. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 10. McCartee v. Orphan Asylum, 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 511, 18
Am. Dec. 516.

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Assuming responsibility, often means taking control of a situation, group, establishment, ect.

Example: The politician assumed responsibility for his Party.

It is also commonly used to say being responsible for your own actions, your children's actions, or
something else. (Your second point)

Example: The boy decided he should assume responsibility for his own actions. -- Normally you would
write "be responsible" instead of "assume responsibility" here, but both are OK.

Another way it is used, is to say that you are taking care of something.

Example: Our Neighbour was on holiday, so we assumed responsibility for her cat.

I think you assume responsibility when you think someone who is on-duty does not behave in
responsible way so you do the job without authorization.

This could be a possible reason for assuming responsibility, but it could be for other reasons. For
example: To help out, To get a pay rise, because you want to be in control ect.