Band books

These pipes and these conveyances of our
blood.

Shak.

3. The act or process of transferring,
transmitting, handing down, or communicating;
transmission.

Tradition is no infallible way of
conveyance.

Stillingfleet.

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.

Clarendon.

5. Dishonest management, or
artifice. [Obs.]

the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly
devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off.

Hakewill.

Con*vey"an*cer
(k&obreve;n*v&/amacr;"an*s&etilde;r), n.


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