DEED. In its legal sense, a “deed” is an instrument in writing, upon paper or parchment, between parties able to contract, subscribed, sealed, and delivered. In a more restricted (and more common modern) sense, a written agreement, signed, sealed, and delivered, by which one person conveys land, tenements, or hereditaments to another. It is also used more broadly as synonymous with “fact,” “actuality,” or “act of parties.” Thus, a thing done “in deed” is one that has been really or expressly don