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The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise.

A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim. Blackstone.

By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.

A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

duty, a duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment used for certain writings, as deeds, conveyances, etc., the evidence of the payment of the duty or tax being a stamp. [Eng.] -- Stamp hammer, a hammer, worked by power, which rises and falls vertically, like a stamp in a stamp mill. -- Stamp head, a heavy mass of me…

ay; sewage. [Obs.] The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn.

haser upon certain conditions and at a certain time thereafter to a deed or instrument of conveyance (called a tax deed) of the land, to be executed by the proper officer.

A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin. Telpher line, or Telpher road, an electric line or road over which vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current conveyed by the line.

The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin.

tificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.

the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.

One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances.

One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.] The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.

The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [R.] "The traduction of brutes." Sir M. Hale.

The conveyance of a soul from one body to another. [R.] Fuller.

The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.