tax deed

American  

noun

1. a title deed issued by a public authority to the purchaser of property sold for the nonpayment of taxes.

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Other Word Forms

• tax-deeded adjective

Etymology

Origin of tax deed

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

He would have had a tax deed to it, and that is considered pretty good.

From The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences by Webster, Frank V.

The first deed recorded in Burnett county was a tax deed from Polk county to Simon Estonson, of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 35, township 38, range 19.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman

Yet, if the quartz was barren, why did Wiley offer to buy her stock, and if it was rich, why did 90he sell his tax deed?

From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane

Why should the states not do the same thing with their school and tax deed lands?

From Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Allen, Edward Tyson