What does Conveyance mean?

Definitions for Conveyance
kənˈveɪ ənscon·veyance

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. conveyancenoun

    document effecting a property transfer

  2. conveyance, imparting, impartationnoun

    the transmission of information

  3. conveyance, transportnoun

    something that serves as a means of transportation

  4. conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveyingnoun

    act of transferring property title from one person to another

  5. transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyancenoun

    the act of moving something from one location to another

Wiktionary

  1. conveyancenoun

    An act or instance of conveying.

  2. conveyancenoun

    A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.

  3. conveyancenoun

    An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Conveyancenoun

    Etymology: from convey.

    Tell her, thou mad’st away her uncle Clarence,
    Her uncle Rivers; ay, and for her sake,
    Mad’st quick conveyance with her good aunt Ann. William Shakespeare, R. III.

    Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

    Iron works ought to be confined to places, where there is no conveyance for timber to places of vent, so as to quit the cost of the carriage. William Temple.

    Your husband’s here at hand; bethink you of some conveyance: in the house you cannot hide him. William Shakespeare.

    We powt upon the morning, are unapt
    To give or to forgive; but when we’ve
    Stuff’d these pipes, and these conveyances of blood,
    With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls. William Shakespeare, Coriolan.

    Our author has provided for the descending and conveyance down of Adam’s monarchical power, or paternal dominion, to posterity. John Locke.

    Doth not the act of the parent, in any lawful grant or conveyance, bind their heirs for ever thereunto? Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    The very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more? William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

    This begot a suit in the Chancery before the lord Coventry, who found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

    It cometh herein to pass with men, unadvisedly fallen into error, as with them whose state hath no ground to uphold it, but only the help which, by subtile conveyance, they draw out of casual events, arising from day to day, ’till at length they be clean spent. Richard Hooker, b. iii. s. 4.

    Close conveyance, and each practice ill
    Of cosinage and knavery. Edmund Spenser, Hubberd’s Tale.

    I am this day come to survey the Tower;
    Since Henry’s death, I fear, there is conveyance. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

    Can they not juggle, and with slight
    Conveyance play with wrong and right. Hudibras, p. ii. c. 2.

ChatGPT

  1. conveyance

    Conveyance is the act of transferring or transporting something or someone from one place to another. It can also refer to the legal process of transferring the ownership of property or rights to another person, or the legal document that confirms this ownership transfer. Furthermore, it can refer to a vehicle or a means of transportation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Conveyancenoun

    the act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage

  2. Conveyancenoun

    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

  3. Conveyancenoun

    the act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission

  4. Conveyancenoun

    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

  5. Conveyancenoun

    dishonest management, or artifice

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Conveyance in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Conveyance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Conveyance in a Sentence

  1. Carly Fiorina:

    Droughts are nothing new in California, but right now, 70 percent of California's rainfall washes out to sea because liberals have prevented theconstruction of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades, during a period in which California’s population has doubled, this is theclassic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people's lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology.

  2. Garen Wintemute:

    The two are not the same, you do not have a right to conveyance. You have a right to self-defense, you have a right to protecting your home and your family that's intrinsic to you as a human being.

  3. John Moore:

    We have this incredible infrastructure in California for water conveyance.

  4. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall:

    Though pipelines remain imperfect as a conveyance for our oil, they're still the safest way to move oil.

  5. Anita Loos:

    On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

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