Convey, Conveer

Concept of “Convey, Conveer”

Traditional meaning of convey, conveer in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) To transfer. Conveyance: a document effecting a transfer of property, usually real estate, other than a will, a lease for a short term, or an executory contract of sale; see 21 Barb. 551. It is original or primary, if by it an estate or interest first is created or arises, as in the case of feoffments, gifts, grants, leases, exchanges. and partitions; derivative or secondary, if it presupposes, or depends upon, some other conveyance, which it enlarges, confirms, executes, or modifies, as in the case of releases, confirmation, surrenders, assignments, and defeasances; tortious, if it conveys a larger estate than the grantor holds, as in feoffments, which worked a forfeiture; innocent, if it only conveys the estate the grantor actually has, as in the case of bargains and sales, covenants to stand seised, and releases. By statute all conveyances are now innocent, and even a feoffment will have no tortious operation. Conveyancing: the law of the alienation of real property. Conveyance by record: one evidenced by the authority of a court of record; as fines and recoveries.

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1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Convey, Conveer”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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