Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Conveyance \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.

Source : WordNet®

conveyance
     n 1: document effecting a property transfer
     2: the transmission of information [syn: {imparting}, {impartation}]
     3: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: {transport}]
     4: act of transferring property title from one person to
        another [syn: {conveyance of title}, {conveyancing}, {conveying}]
     5: the act of transporting something from one location to
        another [syn: {transportation}, {transfer}, {transferral}]