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noun

Conveyance n.

1.

The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. "The long journey was to be performed on horseback, the only sure mode of conveyance." "Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text."

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."

3.

The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. "Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance."

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."

5.

Dishonest management, or artifice. (Obs.) "the very Jesuits themselves... can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off."

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"Conveyance" Quotes from Famous Books

... exceedingly well, I put on, and usurping your man's phrase and action, carried a message to Signior Thorello in your name; which message was merely devised but to procure his absence, while Signior Prospero might make a conveyance of ...

— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson

... a bad or sloppy day, Silius will decide to go in his litter, or Roman form of the palanquin. Being a senator he may use this conveyance, otherwise at this date he could not. There are also sedan chairs, but as yet there exists a prejudice against these as being somewhat effeminate. At this decision four, six, or eight tall fellows, slaves from Cappadocia or Germany by preference, clad in crimson liveries, thrust two long ...

— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker

... by General Vernon, and another, to which I have writ an answer, but was disappointed of a conveyance I expected. You shall have it with additions, by the first messenger that goes; but I cannot send it by the post, as I have spoken very freely of some persons you name, in which we agree thoroughly. These few lines are only to tell you I am not ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole

... passed to the eastward of New Year's Island, and the following day sighted Cape Van Dieman. Here they parted company with their companions, the DICK and SAN ANTONIO, by an interchange of three cheers, the DICK having King's letters for conveyance to England. The course of the BATHURST was now south-west towards Cape Londonderry, sighting, during the next few days, Eclipse Hill, Sir Graham Moore's Islands, and Troughton Island. Light baffling winds detained them for two days in the vicinity of Cassini Island, ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... her the papers freeing her from slavery which Vincent had duly signed in the presence of a justice. When the letter came, however, it was already too late. Fighting was on the point of commencing, all intercourse across the border was stopped, the trains were all taken up for the conveyance of troops, and even a man would have had great difficulty in passing northward, while for an unprotected negress with a baby such a journey would have ...

— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty

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