Conveyancing

The business or practice of preparing conveyances, especially of real estate; including the investigation of titles, the preparation of abstracts, S:c. Conveyancing may be considered as both a science and an art; a science as it embraces an acquaintance with the law of property, and particularly of the principles of alienation; an art as it applies those principles to practice, in the framing of appropriate instruments or conveyances.* In England it is a highly artificial system of rules and practice, which maintains its own separate body of practitioners and professors.

1 Steph, Com. 466. Warren's Law Studies, 319, e^ seq. (Am. ed.)