muniments

[ UK /mjˈuːnɪmənts/ ]
NOUN
  1. deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land
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  • No documents have passed, no memoranda have been made, no minutes have been made, no entries and counter - entries appear in the official muniments. The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
  • She seemed stumped by the legal term "muniments" - pronouncing it many times and asking twice for it to be used in a sentence. CBC | Top Stories News
  • Certainly it was preserved with much care, as if one of the 'muniments' of the citizens. Ancient Town-Planning
  • It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer, will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house (I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers, preserved by Mrs. Micawber), with sentiments of personal esteem amounting to affection. David Copperfield
  • Their descendants took the name of Charteris, as connecting themselves with their maternal ancestors, the ancient proprietors of the property, though the name of Thomas de Longueville was equally honoured amongst them; and the large two handed sword with which he mowed the ranks of war was, and is still, preserved among the family muniments. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • The law of limitation as to real property," London, 1869), and their muniments of title perishable (Angell, op. cit., The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • Some decorations and muniments there were which could not be procured even in Gaul, and these the pious founder determined to fetch from Rome; for which purpose, after he had formed the rule for his monastery, he made his fourth voyage to Rome, and returned loaded with more abundant spiritual merchandise than before. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
  • The great contest now in progress has taught us afresh the potency of those material agencies through which patriotic zeal must act, and we shall hereafter lack all good excuse for _not_ having the very best attainable system of producing, preserving, providing, and using whatever implements, supplies, and muniments our future may demand. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
  • It was in 1376 that the Luttrells bought the castle from the Mohuns; and they hold it still; the old receipt for the purchase-money is still preserved in the castle hall, with various ancient and yellowing title-deeds, and a list of the "muniments" of the castle, made by Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
  • The D'Ewes collection was a curiously miscellaneous one, containing much trivial matter side by side with learned treatises, transcripts of important cartularies, monastic registers, public and private muniments of the most varied description. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
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