Con·vey'ance, n.
(-vā'ans), n. 1. The act of conveying, carrying, transmitting, or transferring; transmission; transference.
The long journey was to be performed on horseback,—the only sure mode of conveyance. Prescott.
Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.
Sense 2. The instrument or means of carrying or transferring any thing from place to place.
Following the river downward there is conveyance into the countries named. Raleigh.
Sense 3. (Law.) An instrument in writing by which property, or the title to property, is conveyed or transmitted from one person to another.
The Lord Coventry . . . found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon.
Sense 4. Dishonest management; secret practices; artifice. [Obs.]
*Close conveyance and each practice ill Of cozenage and knavery. Spenser.*