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English Dictionary: conveyance by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conveyance
n
  1. document effecting a property transfer
  2. the transmission of information
    Synonym(s): conveyance, imparting, impartation
  3. something that serves as a means of transportation
    Synonym(s): conveyance, transport
  4. act of transferring property title from one person to another
    Synonym(s): conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying
  5. the act of moving something from one location to another
    Synonym(s): transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Conveyance \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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