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Rfd-sense 2: "In common law, escrow applied to the deposits only of instruments for conveyance of land, but it now applies to all instruments so deposited." That's not a definition. Whether something can/should be salvaged from it, I don't know. PUC – 22:12, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
- @PUC The whole entry's really substandard, and I strongly suspect it's verbatim copied from some old version of a Wikipedia page, since they're encyclopaedic explanations (e.g. "Money or other property so deposited is also loosely referred to as escrow.") rather than definitions. Theknightwho (talk) 22:18, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
- I've cleared this up:
The state of property deposited with an escrow agent
wasn't distinct from sense 1, so I've just deleted it, since the 2 quotations given for it are better explained by sense 1 anyway.Money or other property so deposited is also loosely referred to as escrow.
was just wrong - we could RFV it, but I can't find any evidence for it at all. Theknightwho (talk) 22:25, 9 November 2023 (UTC) - Actually, MW claims it can be used to refer to the assets held under escrow, so I've restored that. Theknightwho (talk) 22:42, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Theknightwho: Just FYI: here's an exact match, though the text in question was added to our entry in 2007 and this edition is copyright 2016. Normally I would hide the plagiarism in the edit history, but there's the matter of attribution for 16 years of legitimate edits... Chuck Entz (talk) 06:58, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Chuck Entz Thanks - it was added by @CORNELIUSSEON, who hasn’t edited in over 8 years, but seems to have been notorious for plagiarism, incompetence and a refusal to improve, if their talkpage is anything to go by. Theknightwho (talk) 07:16, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Theknightwho: Just FYI: here's an exact match, though the text in question was added to our entry in 2007 and this edition is copyright 2016. Normally I would hide the plagiarism in the edit history, but there's the matter of attribution for 16 years of legitimate edits... Chuck Entz (talk) 06:58, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
Resolved a long time ago. PUC – 20:39, 10 February 2024 (UTC)