conveyance

n. 1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

These pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]