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. H 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, I between,parties able to contract, subscribed, sealed, and delivered. Insurance Co. v. Avery, 60 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 her- J edit aments to another. This is its ordinary modern meaning. Sanders v. Riedinger, 30 App. Dlv. 277, 51 N. Y. Supp. 937; Reed v. Hazleton, 37 Kan. 321, 15 Pac. 177; Dudley v. Sumner, 5 Ma . 470; Fisher v. Pender, 52 N. c. 485.. K 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 expre ly done; as opposed to "in law," which means that it is merely implied or pre- L sumed· to have been done. -Deed in fee. A deed conveying the title to land in fee simple with the usual covenants. Rudd v. Savelli, 44 Ark. 152; Ilf.oody v. Railway Co., 5 Wash. 699, 32 Pac. 751.-Deed indented, or 'indenture. In conveyancing. · A M deed executed or purporting to be executed in [s. 347]