tax title

nounLaw.

a title, acquired by the purchaser at a forced sale of property for nonpayment of taxes.

Origin of tax title

¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Words Nearby tax title

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How to use tax title in a sentence

Also he had sold his tax-title to the property for the sum of one hundred dollars.
Shadow Mountain | Dane Coolidge
They met the Cheyennes, always ambitious to acquire tax title of the plains to such valuable property as this.
The Way to the West | Emerson Hough

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