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An escrow agreement is

[a] legal arrangement whereby an asset (often money, but sometimes other property such as art, a deed of title, web site, software source code or a cryptographic key) is delivered to a third party (called an escrow agent) to be held in trust or otherwise pending a contingency or the fulfillment of a condition or conditions in a contract.[1]

References[]

  1. ISACA, Interactive Glossary & Term Translations (full-text).