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CONVEX'ITY, f. Protuberance in a circular form.— 
If the eye were fo piercing as to defcry even opake and 
little obje£ts a hundred leagues off, it would do us little 
fervice; it would then be terminated by. neighbouring 
hills and woods, or, in the larged and evened plain, by 
the very convexity of the earth. Bentley. 
CONVEX'LY, adv. In a convex form.—Almod all, 
both blunt and fh'arp, are convex/y conical; they are all 
along convex, not only per ambition, but between both 
ends. Grew. 
CONVEX'NESS, f. Spheroidical protuberance; con¬ 
vexity. 
CONVEX'O-CONCAVE, adj. Having the hollow on 
the inlide correfponding to the external protuberance.— 
Thefe are the phenomena of thick convexo-concave plates of 
glafs, which are everywhere of the fame thicknefs. Newton. 
To CONVE ( Y, v. a. [conveho, Lat. ] To carry; to tranf- 
port from , one place to another.—I will convey them by 
lea, in floats, unto the place thou Ihalt appoint me. i 
Kings, v. 9.—To hand from one to another.—A divine 
natural right could not be conveyed down, without any 
plain, natural, or divine rule concerning it. Locke .—To 
remove fecretly.—There was one conveyed out of my houfe 
yederday in this balket. Shakcfpeare. —To bring any thing, 
as an indrument of tranfmiflion; to tranfmit.—Since there 
appears not be any ideas in the mind, before the fenfes 
have conveyed any in, I conceive that ideas in the under- 
danding are coeval with fenfation. Locke. —To transfer ; 
to deliver to another.—The earl of Defmond, before his 
breaking forth into rebellion, conveyed fecretly all his 
lands to feoffees in trufl. Spenjir. —To impart, by means 
of fomething.—Men fill one another’s heads with noile 
and founds, but convey not thereby their thoughts. Locke. 
>—To impart ; to introduce.—Others convey themfelves 
into the mind by more fenfes than one. Locke. 
What obfeured light the heav’ns did grant, 
Did but convey unto our fearful minds 
A doubtful warrant of immediate death. Shakefpeare . 
To manage with privacy: 
Hugh Capet alfo, who ufurp’d the crown, 
To fine his title with fome ihews of truth, 
Convey'd himfelf as heir to til’ lady Lengare. Shakefpeare. 
CONVEYANCE, f. The a6l of removing any tiling: 
Tell her, thou mad’d away her uncle Clarence, 
Her uncle Rivers ; ay, and for her fake, 
Mad’d quick conveyance with her good aunt Ann. SJiakefp. 
Way for carriage or tranfportation.—Following the river 
downward, there is conveyance into the countries named. 
Raleigh .—The method of removing fecretly from one 
place to another.—Your hulband’s here at hand; be¬ 
think you of lome conveyance: in the houfe you cannot 
hide him. Shakefpeare. —The means or indrument by 
which any thing is conveyed : 
We powt upon the morning, are unapt 
To give or to forgive; but when we’ve duff’d 
Thefe pipes, and thefe conveyances of blood, 
With wine and feeding, we have fuppler fouls. Shakrfp. 
Tranfmiflion ; delivery from one to another.—Our author 
has provided for the defeending and conveyance down of 
Adam’s monarchical power, or paternal dominion, to 
pofterity. Locke. —Ail of transferring property; grant.— 
Doth not the act of the parents, in any lawful grant or 
conveyance, bind their heirs for ever thereunto ? Spenfer. — 
Secret management; juggling artifice; private removal; 
iecret lubfiitution of one thing for another : 
Clofe conveyance, and each practice ill 
Oi cofinage and knavery. Spenfer „ 
Can they not juggle, and with flight 
Conveyance play-with wrong and right. Hudibras. 
CONVEX 'ANCE, f. in law, isia deed Which paffes or 
conveys land from one man to another. Conveyance by 
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feoffment, and livery, was the general conveyance at 
common law ; and if there was a tenant in pofleflion, fo 
that livery could not be made, then was the reverfion 
granted, and the tenant always attorned;, alfo upon the 
fame reafon, a.leafe and releafe was held to be a good 
conveyance to pafs an efiate ; but the leffee was to be in 
afclual pofleflion, before the releafe. But the leafe is 
now confidered as operating fo as to give the pofleflion, 
which it dofes in point of law. By the common law, 
when an efiate did not pafs by feoffment, the vendor 
made a leafe for years, and the leffee actually entered; 
and the lelfor granted the reverfion to another, and the 
leflee attorned : afterwards, when an inheritance was to 
be granted, then likewife was a leafe for years ufually 
made, and the leffee entered as before, and then the lelfor 
releafed to him : but after the ftatute of ules, it became 
an opinion, that if a leafe for years was made upon a va¬ 
luable confideration, a releafe might operate upon it 
without an aitual entry of the leffee ; becaufc the llatute 
did execute the leafe, and railed an ufe prefently to the 
leffee ; and ferjeant Moor was the firft who praftifed this 
way. 2 Mod. 251, 252. The mod common conveyances., 
now in ufe are deeds of gift, bargain and falc, leafe anfi 
releafe, fines and recoveries, fettlements to ules, &c. 
Feoffments and grants were the two chief modes ufed 
in the common law for transferring property. The moll 
conrprehenfive definition which can be given of a feoff¬ 
ment feems to be, a conveyance of corporeal heredita¬ 
ments, by delivery of the pofleflion, upon, or within 
view of, the hereditaments conveyed. This delivery 
was thus made, that the lord and the other tenants might 
be witneffes to it. No charter of feoffment was necel- 
fary ; it only ferved as an authentication of the tranfac- 
tion ; and when it was ufed, the lands were fuppofed to 
be transferred, not by the charter, but by the livery 
which it authenticated. Soon after the conquefi, or 
perhaps towards the end of the Saxon government, all 
eftates were called fees; the original and proper import 
of the word feoffment is, the grant of a fee. It came 
afterwards to fignify a grant with livery of feifin of a free 
inheritance to a man and his heirs : more, refpedt being 
had to the perpetuity, than to the feudal tenure, of. the 
efiate granted. In early times, after the conquefi, 
charters of feoffment were various in point of form. In 
the time of Edward I. they began to be drawn up in a 
more uniform llile. The more ancient of them gene¬ 
rally run-with the words dedi,_ ccnceffi, or donavi. It was 
not till a later period that feoffavi came into ufe. The 
more ancient feoffments were alfo ufually made in confi¬ 
deration of, or for the homage and fervice of the feoffee, 
and to hold of the feoffer and his heirs. But after the 
ftatute quia emptores, 18 Edw. I. ft. 1. feoffments were al¬ 
ways made to hold to the chief lords of the fee, without 
the words pro liomagio andJervitio. 1 Inf. 6 a. 271 b. The 
proper limitation of a feoffment is to a man and bis 
heirs; but feoffments were often made of conditional 
fees, or of ellates-tail as they are now called, and of 
life-eftates; to which maybe added, feoffments of ef¬ 
tates given in frankmarriage and frankalmoigrfe. To 
make the feoffment complete, the feoffor ufed to give 
the feoffee feifin of the lands : this is what the feudifts 
call inveftiture. It was often made by fymbolical tradi¬ 
tion, but it was always made upon or within view of the 
lands. When the king made a feoffment, he iffued his 
writ to the fheriff,.or fome other perfon to deliver feifin : 
other great men did the fame ; and this gave rife to 
powers of attorney. See Mad. Form. pref. 
A grant, in the original fignification of the word, is a 
conveyance or transfer of an incorporeal hereditament. 
As livery of feifin could not be had of thefe, the trans¬ 
fer of them was always made by writing, in- order to 
produce that notoriety, which in the transfer of corporeal 
hereditaments was produced by delivery of tire poffef- 
fion. But in other refpeits a feoffment and a grant did 
not materially differ. Such was the original diftinition 
between 
