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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."