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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 48 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONVEYANCE , primarily the See also:

act or See also:process of conveying anything. The verb " to convey," now used in the senses of carrying, transporting, transmitting, communicating or handing over, originally had the same meaning as " See also:convoy " (q.v.), i.e. to accompany, a meaning which still survived in the 18th See also:century. Like " convoy " it is ultimately derived from the See also:Late See also:Lat. conviare (not from convehere), but through the old See also:Norman See also:French See also:form conveier, which in central See also:France passed into the form convoier, mod. Fr. convoyer, whence " convoy." Apart from the See also:general sense given above the word conveyance is now used in three See also:special senses: (1) a See also:carriage or other means of transport, (2) in See also:law, the transference of See also:property by See also:deed or See also:writing between living persons, and (3) the written See also:instrument by which such transference is effected.

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