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Conveyance   /kənvˈeɪəns/   Listen
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



... question must here be left open, but it may be mentioned in the same connection that we found the remains of birds' nests in many places among the rocks. Possibly the occupants of these nests may have been instrumental in the conveyance of ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen

... dollars allowed by the State, and advanced him five more, probably supposing that it would be paid him by the Association. The man, as I learn, rode until he felt safe from being seized, when he left the cars, traveling on foot for lack of means to go by public conveyance, and, at length, arrived at this friend's, in as bad a plight, probably, as any before spoken of. He said he had been sick, confined to his cell for weeks, was neglected, and sometimes was not furnished with water to ...
— The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences • Hosea Quinby

... end. The underlying purpose of it would seem to be the separation of the races in status. The doctrine of inequality would be attacked if white and black passengers rode in public conveyances on equal terms; therefore the Negro who rides in a public conveyance must do so, not as of undoubted right, but as with the white man's permission, subject to the white man's regulation. "This place you may occupy, that other you may not, because I am I and you are you, lest to you or me it should be obscured that I am I and you are you." Such ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various

... I know not; but he was in another town, near the coast, three days, still waiting for a safe conveyance; and here, finding his danger increased greatly by delay, he went to some common house, without dress or equipage or servants that could betray him, and spent his whole time in bed, under pretence of indisposition, to avoid ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay

... him in collecting these songs. These journeys were made through wild fens, forests, marshes, and ice-plains, on horseback, in sledges drawn by the reindeer, in canoes, or in some other forms of primitive conveyance. The enthusiastic physician described his journeyings and difficulties faithfully in a paper published at Helsingfors in Swedish in 1834. He had the peculiar good luck to meet an old peasant, one of the oldest of the runolainen in the Russian ...
— The Kalevala (complete) • John Martin Crawford, trans.


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