Conveyer
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Conveier.
L. Fr. To derive title; to derive by descent. Litt. sect.
703, 705, 706.
To CONVICT. [L. Lat. convincere.] In practice. To condemn; to find guilty of an offence [usually] by the verdict of a jury.
4 Bl. Com. 362.
To find against the defendant in civil cases. "Whereof the said defendant is convicted, as appears of record, &c."