Results for conveyance

Definitions of conveyance:

part of speech: noun

The instrument or means of conveying: ( law) the act of transferring property: the writing which transfers it.

part of speech: noun

The act of conveying or removing; the act of transmitting or transferring, as property; the deed which transfers anything to another, as property; the means of carrying a thing from place to place, as a waggon, a railway, a canal.

part of speech: noun

Transport; the act or means of transmitting, communicating, etc.; a vehicle, as an automobile; the change of property from one owner to another.

Usage examples for conveyance:

• For, besides the strange discoveries that it might occasion in this other world, it would be also of inconceivable advantage for travelling, above any other conveyance that is now in use. "Wonderful Balloon Ascents or, the Conquest of the Skies", Fulgence Marion

• It's some kind of a conveyance exactly the opposite of a motor- car, I fancy, from the description. "Set in Silver", Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

• This was the original conveyance of the now almost priceless estate, held by the corporation of Trinity Church. "Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam", John S. C. Abbott

• The consequence was that Orsino found himself helping Maria Consuelo into the modest hired conveyance which awaited her at the gate. "Don Orsino", F. Marion Crawford