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The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.

Conveyance; means of transportation. [Obs.] Shak.

A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water. Johnson.

One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc. [Colloq. U. S.]

or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.

Conveyance. [Obs. or Archaic] In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them. Bacon.

Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.

Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed.

amental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found in some parts of the body, in which the arteries empty directly into the veins without the interposition of capillaries. Flint. -- De*…

A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof. [Colloq.]

A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.

erpetual rent. Blackstone. -- Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. -- Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. -- Fee simple (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. Buy the fee simple of my…

To send by public conveyance free of expense. Dickens.

To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition. Grant me the place of this threshing floor. 1 Chrcn. xxi. 22.

The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.

The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.

Transportation; conveyance. [Obs.]

Our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature. Shak. Lease and release a mode of conveyance of freehold estates, formerly common in England and in New York. its place is now supplied by a simple deed of grant. Burrill. Warren's Blackstone.

ted communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle. The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and natural. Walsh.