What is deed of conveyance?

Famous quotes containing the words deed of, deed and/or conveyance:

    The tyrannous and bloody deed is done,
    The most arch deed of piteous massacre
    That ever yet this land was guilty of.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    How far that little candle throws his beams!
    So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can’t resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.
    Robert Musil (1880–1942)