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conveyancer|kənˈveɪənsə(r)|
[f. conveyance n.: see -er1 1.]
1. That which conveys or accomplishes the conveyance of anything. (In quot. 1791 said of a person.)
1623Bp. Hall Serm. Wks. 1837 V. 165 The moon..the receptacle of all the influences of the heavenly bodies, and the conveyancer of them to this inferior world. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous Wks. (1834) 248 b, The vehicula, the conveyancers of the divine nature. 1791F. Burney Diary 7 July, Her Majesty made me also the happy conveyancer of various presents to them both. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xxi. 387 Nature is nothing more than a conveyancer..conducting activity from one substance to another.
2. A lawyer who prepares documents for the conveyance of property, and investigates titles to property.
1650E. Hendon, etc. (title), The Perfect Conveyancer; or Select Precedents. 1712Steele Spect. No. 272 ⁋1, I have a young Kinsman who is Clerk to a great Conveyancer. 1723Steele Consc. Lovers ii. i, The mother has actually sent for the conveyancer to draw articles for his marriage with Lucinda. 1833Macaulay Ess., Walpole's Lett. (1854) I. 264/2 He..tasked the ingenuity of conveyancers to tie up his villa in the strictest settlement. 1878Black Green Past. xiii. 101 Who is also..a notary public, a conveyancer and real estate agent. 1891Law List 291 [List of]..Conveyancers not at the Bar.
†3. A dexterous thief. Obs.
1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1813) I. 99 He had therefore concerted his measures with the dexterity of an experienced conveyancer. |