Conveyancing

A term including both the science and act of transferring titles to real estate from one man to another. It includes the examination of the title of the alienor, and also the preparation of the instruments of transfer. It is, in England and Scotland, and, to a greatly inferior extent, in the United States, a highly artificial system of law with a distinct class of practitioners. A profound and elaborate treatise on the English law of conveyancing is Mr. Preston's. Geldart and Thornton's works are important works; and an interesting

A term including both the science and art of transferring titles to real estate from one man to another. It includes the examination of the title of the alienor, and also the preparation of the instruments of transfer. It is, in England and Scotland, and, to a less extent, in the United States, a highlyartificial system of law, with a distinct class of practitioners. A profound and elaborate treatise on the English law of conveyancing is Mr. Preston's. Geldart and Thornton's works are also important; and an interesting and useful summary of the American law is given in "Washburn on Real Property. See Clerke; Martindale; Morris; Yeakle, Conveyancing. CONVEYANCING COUNSEL TO THE

A term including both the science and act of transferring titles to real estate from one man to another. Conveyancing is that part of the lawyer’s business wilich relates to the alienation and transmission of property and other righis from one person to another, and to the framing of legal documents intended to create, define, transfer, or extinguish rights. It therefore includes the investigation of the title to land, and the preparation of areoments, wills, articles of association, private statutes operating as conveyances, and many other instruments in addition to conveyances properly socalled. Sweet. CONVEYANCING COUNSEL TO

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.)