\Con*vey"ance\, n.
1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.

         The long joirney was to be performed on horseback,
         -- the only sure mode of conveyamce.  --Prescott.

         Following th river downward, there is conveyance
         into the countries named in the text. --Sir W.
                                               Raleigh.

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.

         There pipes and these conveyances of our blood.
                                               --Shak.

3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing
   down, or communicating; transmission.

         Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance.
                                               --Stillingfleet.

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.

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

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

         the very jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly
         devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off.
                                               --Hakewill.