'Conveyance' definitions:
Definition of 'conveyance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Document effecting a property transfer
noun
The transmission of information [syn: conveyance, imparting, impartation]
noun
Something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance, transport]
noun
Act of transferring property title from one person to another [syn: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying]
noun
The act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]
Definition of 'Conveyance'
From: GCIDE
- Conveyance \Con*vey"ance\ (k[o^]n*v[=a]"ans), n.
- 1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. [1913 Webster]
- The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- These pipes and these conveyances of our blood. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. [1913 Webster]
- Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. --Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- [He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. --Hakewill. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conveyance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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