Conveyancer

Definitions

1. An attorney who passes transfer of immovable property from one party to another.
2. A pickpocket.
   UK, obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

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

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