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Abeyance
Abeyance A*bey"ance, n. [OF. abeance expectation, longing; a
(L. ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to look with open mouth, to
expect, F. bayer, LL. badare to gape.]
1. (Law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an
inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be
in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law
considering it as always potentially existing, and
ready to vest whenever a proper owner appears.
--Blackstone.
2. Suspension; temporary suppression.
Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a
dormant state, or state of abeyance. --De Quincey.
Annoyance
Annoyance An*noy"ance, n. [OF. anoiance, anuiance.]
1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed;
molestation; vexation; annoy.
A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers.
--Fuller.
For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged
place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
--Wilkins.
2. That which annoys.
A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any
annoyance in that precious sense. --Shak.
Buoyance
Buoyance Buoy"ance, n.
Buoyancy. [R.]
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance Clair*voy"ance, n. [F.]
A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric
state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in
their normal condition.
Conveyance
Conveyance Con*vey"ance, n.
1. The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
The long joirney was to be performed on horseback,
-- the only sure mode of conveyamce. --Prescott.
Following th river downward, there is conveyance
into the countries named in the text. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
2. The instrument or means of carrying or transporting
anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or
means by which, anything is carried from one place to
another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are
conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for
water.
There pipes and these conveyances of our blood.
--Shak.
3. The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing
down, or communicating; transmission.
Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance.
--Stillingfleet.
4. (Law) The act by which the title to property, esp. real
estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an
instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which
the title to property is conveyed from one person to
another.
[He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm,
that in justice he must decree the land to the earl.
--Clarendon.
5. Dishonest management, or artifice. [Obs.]
the very jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly
devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off.
--Hakewill.
Conveyancer
Conveyancer Con*vey"an*cer, n. (Law)
One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as
deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. --Burrill.
Dispurveyance
Dispurveyance Dis`pur*vey"ance, n.
Want of provisions; ?ack of food. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Extrajudicial conveyance
Extrajudicial conveyance Extrajudicial conveyance (Law)
A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties
and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial
proceedings.
noyanceNoiance Noi"ance, n. [Abbrev. fr. OE. anoiance.] [Written also
noyance.]
Annoyance. [Obs.] --Tusser. Noyance
Noyance Noy"ance, n.
Annoyance. [Obs.] --Spenser.
PourveyancePourveyance Pour*vey"ance, n.
See Purveyance. Reconveyance
Reconveyance Re`con*vey"ance (-v?"?ns), n.
Act of reconveying.
Surveyance
Surveyance Sur*vey"ance, n.
Survey; inspection. [R.]
Upbuoyance
Upbuoyance Up*buoy"ance, n.
The act of buoying up; uplifting. [R.] --Coleridge.
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