BILL OF SALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bill of sale mean? 

• BILL OF SALE (noun)
  The noun BILL OF SALE has 1 sense:

1. a deed transferring personal property

  Familiarity information: BILL OF SALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILL OF SALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deed transferring personal property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bill of sale" is a kind of...):

deed; deed of conveyance; title (a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

 Context examples 

That his last act, completed but a few months since, was to induce Mr. W. to execute a relinquishment of his share in the partnership, and even a bill of sale on the very furniture of his house, in consideration of a certain annuity, to be well and truly paid by—HEEP—on the four common quarter-days in each and every year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)