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Webster 1913 Edition


Conveyance

Con-vey′ance

(kŏn-vā′ans)
,
Noun.
1.
The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
The long journey was to be performed on horseback, – the only sure mode of
conveyance
.
Prescott.
Following the 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
.
These pipes and these
conveyances
of our blood.
Shakespeare
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Conveyance

CONVEYANCE

,
Noun.
1.
The act of conveying; the act of bearing, carrying, or transporting, by land or water, or through any medium.
2.
The act of transmitting, or transferring, as titles, estates or claims from one person to another; transmission; transference; assignment.
3.
The instrument or means of passing a thing from place to place, or person to person; as, a vehicle is a conveyance for persons or goods; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water; a deed is a conveyance of land.
4.
Removal; the act of removing or carrying.
5.
Management; artifice; secret practices. [In this sense, obsolete.]

Definition 2024


conveyance

conveyance

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Noun

conveyance (plural conveyances)

  1. An act or instance of conveying.
    1. (archaic) A manner of conveying one's thoughts, a style of communication.
      • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1
        She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me, that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me.
  2. A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:
      Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
  3. (law) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.

Translations

Verb

conveyance (third-person singular simple present conveyances, present participle conveyancing, simple past and past participle conveyanced)

  1. (law, transitive) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.