conveyancer
nounEtymology From conveyance + -er.
1
Law An attorney who passes transfer of immovable property from one party to another.
- 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.1822, A Morning in Cork-Street: or, Raising the wind, page 102:
- Then will Lincoln's Inn change its sombre hue to Lincoln green. There will be no conveyancers, i. e. no thieves, no pickpockets.1857, Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson), Tea-table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies (page 209)