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Pleading vs Conveyance - What's the difference?

pleading | conveyance |

As nouns the difference between pleading and conveyance

is that pleading is the act of making a plea while conveyance is an act or instance of conveying.

As verbs the difference between pleading and conveyance

is that pleading is while conveyance is (legal|transitive) to transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.

As an adjective pleading

is that pleads.

pleading

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of making a plea.
  • * (Thomas Hardy)
  • But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
  • (legal) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pleads.
  • * 1955 , , Ann Lindsay, Earth , p. 251:
  • Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
  • * 1999 , (Simone de Beauvoir), The Mandarins , p. 599:
  • With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
  • * 1993 , (Charles Haddon Spurgeon), Psalms , p. 225:
  • Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

    Derived terms

    * pleadingly

    Anagrams

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    conveyance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * conveyaunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Verb

    (conveyanc)
  • (legal) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.