Conveyance vs Modus - What's the difference?
conveyance | modus |
An act or instance of conveying.
#(lb) A manner of conveying one's thoughts, a style of communication.
#*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
#*:She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me, that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me.
A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
(legal) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
(legal, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
(legal) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, etc.
(legal) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi .
* Landor
As nouns the difference between conveyance and modus
is that conveyance is an act or instance of conveying while modus is (legal|obsolete) the arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.As a verb conveyance
is (legal|transitive) to transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.conveyance
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Alternative forms
* conveyaunceNoun
(en noun)Verb
(conveyanc)modus
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Noun
(modi)- (Henry de Bracton)
- (Blackstone)
- They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus , or composition.
