conveyancer

English

Etymology

conveyance +‎ -er

Noun

conveyancer (plural conveyancers)

1. (law) An attorney who passes transfer of immovable property from one party to another.
   • 2006, “Conveyancers in Cape Town are furious over long delays holding up the issue of rates clearance certificates by the City of Cape Town that are playing havoc with property transfers and deed registrations.”, in Weekend Argus June 24 2006:
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
   • 1822, A Morning in Cork-Street: or, Raising the wind, page 102:

     The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take.

   • 1857, Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson), Tea-table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies (page 209)

     Then will Lincoln's Inn change its sombre hue to Lincoln green. There will be no conveyancers, i. e. no thieves, no pickpockets.

Translations

attorney

• Afrikaans: aktebesorger
• German: Notar (de) m