conveyance Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun document effecting a property transfer
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noun the transmission of information
impartation; imparting.
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noun something that serves as a means of transportation
transport.
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noun act of transferring property title from one person to another
conveyancing; conveyance of title; conveying.
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noun the act of moving something from one location to another
transfer; transportation; transport; transferral.
WordNet
Con*vey"ance noun
Definitions
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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.
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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 aconveyance for waterThere pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak.
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The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.
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(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.
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Dishonest management, or artifice. Obs.the very jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill.