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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

... Perth; and, though much fatigued by a constant exposure to the air for many hours, I would not rest, but merely altering my mode of conveyance, I went by land instead of air, to Dunkeld. The sun was rising as I entered the opening of the hills. After the revolution of ages Birnam hill was again covered with a young forest, while more aged pines, planted at the very commencement of the nineteenth century by the then ...

— The Last Man • Mary Shelley

... should have liked a more grave and ancient mode of conveyance; but how silly to desire that! The Lady of Shalott's boat was no doubt of the latest and neatest trim, fully up to her drowsy date; and as for quaintness, no doubt a couple of hundred years hence, when our river-craft may be cigar-shaped torpedoes ...

— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson

... most extensive and important trade which the Romans carried on at all periods of their history, was the conveyance of corn and other provisions to the capital. The contiguous territory at no time was sufficient to supply Rome with corn; and, long before the republic was destroyed, even Italy was inadequate to this purpose. As the population encreased, and ...

— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... Conveyance; since which nothing new has occurred here, saving that this Town at a legal Meeting yesterday2 orderd a circular Letter to be sent to all the Towns and Districts in the province a Copy of which is inclosed. ...

— The Writings of Samuel Adams, vol. III. • Samuel Adams

... A.D. 1520. I think that this is the large lake, now dry, to be seen at the north-western mouth of the valley entering into the Sandur hills south-west of Hospett, the huge bank of which has been utilised for the conveyance of the highroad from Hospett to the southern taluqs. If so, the fact of its original failure is interesting to us, because for many years past this vast work has been entirely useless. The description given by Nuniz accords with the position of this tank, which was doubtless ...

— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell

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