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Conveyance

Conveyance Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Conveyance?
[n] the act of transporting something from one location to another
[n] act of transferring property title from one person to another [n] something that serves as a means of transportation [n] the transmission of information [n] document effecting a property transfer Synonyms | Synonyms for Conveyance: conveyance of title | conveyancing | conveying | impartation | imparting | transfer | transferral | transport | transportation Related Terms | Find terms related to Conveyance: abalienation | abstraction | air express | aircraft | airfreight | airlift | alienation | amortization | amortizement | annexation | announcement | appropriation | asportation | assignation | assignment | bargain and sale | barter | bearing | bequeathal | boosting | carriage | carrier | carry | carrying | cartage | cession | charter | conferment | conferral | consignation | consignment | conversion | conveyancing | deed | deeding | deliverance | delivery | demise | disclosure | disposal | disposition | drayage | embezzlement | enfeoffment | exchange | expressage | ferriage | filching | fraud | freight | freightage | giving | graft | haulage | hauling | impartation | imparting | impartment | lease and release | liberation | lifting | lighterage | lugging | medium of transportation | notification | packing | pilferage | pilfering | pinching | poaching | portage | porterage | publication | railway express | sale | scrounging | settlement | settling | sharing | shipment | shipping | shoplifting | snatching | sneak thievery | snitching | stealage | stealing | surrender | swindle | swiping | telling | telpherage | theft | thievery | thieving | toting | trading | transfer | transference | transit | transmission | transmittal | transport | transportation | transporting | transshipment | truckage | vehicle | vesting | waft | waftage | wagonage | watercraft See Also | aerial tramway | airlift | bringing | cable tramway | cargo ships | carry | connection | connexion | delivery | dolly | drive | giving | horsebox | instrument | instrumentality | instrumentation | legal document | legal instrument | legal transfer | lift | lift | lighterage | litter | livery | mail | merchant marine | merchant vessels | movement | official document | pickup | public transport | quitclaim | quitclaim deed | relocation | resettlement | roll-on roll-off | ropeway | shipping | sidecar | ski lift | ski tow | telfer | telpher | trailer | tram | tramway | transference | transmission | transplantation | transshipment | vehicle Conveyance In Webster's Dictionary \Con*vey"ance\, n.
1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
The long joirney was to be performed on horseback,
-- the only sure mode of conveyamce. --Prescott.
Following th river downward, there is conveyance
into the countries named in the text. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
2. The instrument or means of carrying or transporting
anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or
means by which, anything is carried from one place to
another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are
conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for
water.
There pipes and these conveyances of our blood.
--Shak.
3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing
down, or communicating; transmission.
Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance.
--Stillingfleet.
4. (Law) The act by which the title to property, esp. real
estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an
instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which
the title to property is conveyed from one person to
another.
[He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm,
that in justice he must decree the land to the earl.
--Clarendon.
5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [Obs.]
the very jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly
devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off.
--Hakewill.
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