deeded

1. 1
   verbcolloquial

   Simple past and past participle of deed.

   The widow deeded the farm to her three children in equal shares.

   Once the loan was repaid, the property was deeded back to its original owner.

   Note

   A regular verb built straight from the noun for the legal document that conveys property, so a single -ed spelling serves as both past tense and participle: she deeded the house; the house was deeded to her. The person receiving the property comes after to, and the passive is natural when the property is the topic. The verb itself is informal, and the adjective "transferred by deed" shares its spelling.

2. 2
   adjective

   Transferred to an owner by deed; held under formal title rather than by lease or informal arrangement.

   Each resident holds a deeded share of the building's common areas.

   The deeded property included the house and the surrounding orchard.

   Oppositeleased

   Note

   Timeshare and property writing lean on this adjective to separate owning from merely using. Abraham Pizam and Judy Holcomb's International Dictionary of Hospitality Management (2010) speaks of a deeded ownership interest whose purchaser goes on owning part of the underlying property as a cotenant. It sits before its noun, as in deeded timeshare or deeded interest, and the same spelling serves as the past form of the verb to deed.

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