B. The voluntary transfer of a right or of property.
Listen to pronunciationA conveyance is most often associated with the transfer of real estate (immovable property). You may also hear the word conveyancer, which is a lawyer who specializes in real estate transactions.
Legal Definition - 1. The voluntary transfer of a right or of property. 2. The transfer of a property right that does not pass by delivery of a thing or merely by agreement. 3. The transfer of an interest in real property from one living person to another, by means of an instrument such as a deed. 4. The document (usu. a deed) by which such a transfer occurs. 5. A means of transport; a vehicle. Black's Law Dictionary® Eighth Edition © 2004
Recent Usage -
"By any standard, Manhattan trusts and estates lawyer Edward F. Campbell Jr. got a great deal on his house in ultra-exclusive Lloyd Harbor on Long Island's North Shore. Too good to be true? Yes, said the Long Island judge who ruled earlier this month that Campbell, 57, had exercised undue influence and taken advantage of his superior legal knowledge to foist an unfair transaction on the sellers -- his own elderly parents. Ruling for the parents who first filed the intergenerational lawsuit in 2001, Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Paul J. Baisley said Campbell, a counsel in the New York office of Chicago's Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, had been conflicted when he acted as 'mediator, attorney and financial advisor' to both parties in the 1996 sale, raising 'a serious question about the voluntariness of the conveyance.'" by Anthony Lin, New York Law Journal 03-30-2006