KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

CONVEYANCE

CONVENTUAL CHURCH

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Yerkes v. Yerkes, 200 Pa. 419, 50 AtL 186; Appeal of Clarke, 70 Conn. 195, 39 Atl. 155. At law. An unauthorized assumption and exercise of the right of ownership over goods or personal chattels belonging to another, to the alteration of their condition or the exclusion of the owner's rights. Baldwin v. Cole, 6 Mod. 212; Trust Co. v. Tod, 170 N. Y. 233, 63 N. E. 285; Boyce v. Brockway, 31 N. Y. 490; University v. Bank, 96 N. C. 280, 3 S. E. 359; Webber v. Davis, 44 Me. 147, 69 Am. Dec. 87; Gilman v. Hill, 36 N. H. 311; Stough v. Stefani, 19 Neb. 468, 27 N. W. 445; Schroeppel v. Corning, 5 Denio (N. Y.) 236; Aschermann v. Brewing Co., 45 Wis. 266. —Constructive conversion. An implied or virtual conversion, which takes place where a person does such acts in reference to the goods of another as amount in law to the appropria tion of the property to himself. Scruggs v. Scruggs (C. C.) 105 Fed. 28: Laverty v. Sneth en, 68 N. Y. 524, 23 Am. Rep. 184. CONVEY. To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed or Instrument under seal. To convey real estate is, by an appropriate instrument, to transfer the legal title to it from the present owner to another. Abendroth v. Greenwich, 29 Conn. 356. Convey relates properly to the disposition of real property, not to personal. Dickerman v. Abrahams, 21 Barb. (N. Y.) 551, 561. CONVEYANCE. In pleading. Intro duction or inducement. In real property law. The transfer of the title of land from one person or class--of persons to another. Klein v. McNamard, 54 Miss. 105; Alexander v. State, 28 Tex. App. 186, 12 S. W. 596; Brown v. Fitz, 13 N. H. 283; Pickett v. Buckner, 45 Miss. 245; Dick erman v. Abrahams, 21 Barb. (N. Y.) 551. An instrument in writing under seal, (an ciently termed an "assurance,") by which some estate or interest in lands is transferred from one person to another; such as a deed, mortgage, etc. 2 Bl. Comm. 293, 295, 309. Conveyance includes every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real estate is created, aliened, mortgaged, or assigned, or by which the title to any real estate may be affected in law or equity, ex cept last wills and testaments, leases for a term not exceeding three years, and execu tory contracts for the sale or purchase of lands. 1 Rev. St N. Y. p. 762, § 38; Gen. St. Minn. 1878, c 40, § 26; How. St Mich. 1882, § 5689. The term "conveyance," as used in the California Code, embraces every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real property is created, aliened, mortgaged, or incumbered, or by which the title to any real property may be affected, except wills. Civil Code Cal. § 1215. —Absolute or conditional conveyance. An absolute conveyance is one by which the

eign countries as to the apprehension and ex tradition of fugitive offenders. See EXTBA DITION. CONVENTUAL CHURCH. In ecclesi astical law. That which consists of regular clerks, professing some order or religion; or of dean and chapter; or other societies of spiritual men. CONVENTUALS. Religious men united in a convent or religious house. Cowell. CONVENTUS. Lat A coming together; a convention or assembly. Conventus magna tum vel procerum (the assembly of chief men or peers) was one of the names of the English parliament 1 Bl. Comm. 148. In the civil law. The term meant a gathering together of people; a crowd as sembled for any purpose; also a convention, pact, or bargain. —Conventus juridicns. In the Roman law. A court of sessions held in the Roman provinces, by the president of the province, assisted by a certain number of counsellors and assessors, at fixed periods, to hear and determine suits, and to provide for the civil administration of the province. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 17. CONVERSANT. One who is in the hab it of being in a particular place is said to be conversant there. Barnes, 162. Acquaint ed ; familiar. CONVERSANTES. In old English law. Conversant or dwelling; commorant CONVERSATION. Manner of living; habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase "chaste life and conversation." Bradshaw v. People, 153 111. 156, 38 N. E. 652. "Criminal conversation" means seduction of another man's wife, considered as an actionable in jury to the husband. Prettyman v. William son, 1 Pennewill (Del.) 224, 39 Atl. 731; Crocker v. Crocker, 98 Fed. 702. CONVERSE. The transposition of the subject and predicate in a proposition, as: "Everything is good in its place." Converse, "Nothing is good which is not in its place." Wharton. CONVERSION. In equity. The trans formation of one species of property into an other, as money into land or land into mon ey; or, more particularly, a fiction of law, by which equity assumes that such a trans formation has taken place (contrary to the fact) when it is rendered necessary by the equities of the case,—as to carry into effect the directions of a will or settlement,—and by which the property so dealt with becomes invested with the properties and attributes of that into which it is supposed to have been converted. Seymour v. Freer, 8 Wall. 214, 19 L. Ed. 306; Haward v. Peavey, 128 111. 430, 21 N. E. 503, 15 Am. St Rep. 120;