Definition of Reconvey

1. v. t. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods.

Definition of Reconvey

1. Verb. (transitive) To convey again, or back to a former place or owner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reconvey

1. to convey back to a previous position [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reconvey

reconventions
reconverge
reconverged
reconvergence
reconvergences
reconverges
reconverging
reconversion
reconversions
reconvert
reconverted
reconvertibility
reconvertible
reconverting
reconverts
reconvey (current term)
reconveyance
reconveyances
reconveyed
reconveying
reconveys
reconvict
reconvicted
reconvicting
reconviction
reconvictions
reconvicts
reconvince
reconvinced
reconvinces

Literary usage of Reconvey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"Deed with contract to reconvey. Where a person advances money, and at the same time receives a deed and gives a bond to the grantor for a reconveyance, ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"Any stipulation or agreement that plainly Indicates an intention to return or reconvey the property upon payment of the sum named constitutes a mortgage. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real Property by Leonard Augustus Jones (1882)
"But in the above case the deed is to the person by whom the conditions are to be performed, and his bond is simply a covenant to reconvey, which may ..."

4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1891)
"A promise by a married woman to reconvey certain property to her husband upon his request, ... Where a wife agrees to reconvey property to her husband ..."

5. California Jurisprudence: A Complete Statement of the Law and Practice of by William Mark McKinney (1922)
"It was also held that such conveyance and covenant created an express trust, and that a cause of action did not arise from the failure to reconvey until a ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Deeds: Their Form, Requisites, Execution by Robert Thomas Devlin (1897)
"The court held that as there was no debt secured, this agreement was not the defeasance of a mortgage, but a contract to reconvey.* If the deed absolute in ..."

7. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Council of Safety (Conn.), Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1885)
"... and thereupon giving it as their opinion that said Zebediah should reconvey said land to your petitioner, which report is accepted by this Assembly: ..."

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