Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A secret writing, either before a notary or under a private seal, which destroys, invalidates, or alters a public deed; a defeasance.
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Examples
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I have no one but you to trust to in the draft of the counter-deed, which will declare that this transfer is a simulated sale, and that Gobseck as trustee will administer my estate (as he knows how to administer), and undertakes to make over my fortune to my eldest son when he comes of age.
Gobseck 2007
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I have no one but you to trust to in the draft of the counter-deed, which will declare that this transfer is a simulated sale, and that Gobseck as trustee will administer my estate (as he knows how to administer), and undertakes to make over my fortune to my eldest son when he comes of age.
Gobseck 2007
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I augured ill of all this, and earnestly wished for an interview, for I was not easy in my mind about the fate of the counter-deed.
Gobseck 2007
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I bribed one of the servants in the house — the man undertook to let me know at any hour of the day or night if his master should be at the point of death, so that I could intervene at once, scare the Countess with a threat of affixing seals, and so secure the counter-deed.
Gobseck 2007
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I augured ill of all this, and earnestly wished for an interview, for I was not easy in my mind about the fate of the counter-deed.
Gobseck 2007
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Well, time went by, and I saw nothing of the counter-deed, which by rights should have been in my hands.
Gobseck 2007
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I bribed one of the servants in the house — the man undertook to let me know at any hour of the day or night if his master should be at the point of death, so that I could intervene at once, scare the Countess with a threat of affixing seals, and so secure the counter-deed.
Gobseck 2007
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Well, time went by, and I saw nothing of the counter-deed, which by rights should have been in my hands.
Gobseck 2007
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I bribed one of the servants in the house -- the man undertook to let me know at any hour of the day or night if his master should be at the point of death, so that I could intervene at once, scare the Countess with a threat of affixing seals, and so secure the counter-deed.
Gobseck Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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We will make provision for the children in the counter-deed. '
Gobseck Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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