noun
deed of transfer; assignment deed
A legal document that formally transfers rights or property from one party to another. Used in contexts such as real estate, contracts, or inheritance.
土地の譲り状を作成するには、司法書士に依頼する必要がある。
To prepare a deed of transfer for land, you need to ask a judicial scrivener.
彼は父親から受け継いだ家
He carefully keeps the deed of transfer for the house he inherited from his father.
Compound of 譲り (yuzuri, 'transfer', from 譲る yuzuru) and 状 (jō, 'document'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows a common pattern for legal documents.