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Absolute conveyance

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A conveyance free from conditions.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

<A conveyance by which the right or property in a thing is transferred, free of any condition or qualitication, by which it might be defeated or changed; ag an ordinary deed of Jands, in = contradistinetion to a mortgage, which is a conditional conveyance. Burrill.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A conveyance by which the right or property in a Ihmg is transferred, free of any condition, or quahficalion, by which it might be defeated, or changed; as an ordinary deed of lands, in contradistinction to a mortgage, which is a conditional conveyance.* See Mortgage, Defeasance, A deed, absolute on the face of it, may however be valid and effectual as a mortgage, as between the parties, if it was intended by them to be mere-. ly a security for a debt. 4 Ken Vs Coin. 142, 143.