Conveyance

In pleading. Introduction or inducement, In real property law. The transfer of persons to another.

21 Barb. 551; 29 Conn. 356.

An instrument in writing under seal, (anciently termed an “assurance,”) by which some estateor interest in lands is transferred from one person to another; such as a deed, mortgage, ete.

2 Bl. Comm. 293, 295, 309.

Conveyance includes every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real estate is created, aliened, mortgaged, or assigned, or by which the title to any real estate may be affected in law or equity, except last wills and festaments, leases for a term not exceeding three years, and executory contracts for the sale or purchase of lands.

1 Rev. St. N. Y. p. 762, § 38; Gen, St. Minn. 1878, c. 40, § 26; How. St. Mich. 1882, § 5689.

The term “conveyance,” as used in the California Code, embraces every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real property is created, aliened, mortgaged, or incumbered, or by which the title to any teal property may be aifected, except wills.

Civil Code Cal. § 1215.