What's the difference between attorney and conveyancer?
Attorney
Definition:
(n.) A substitute; a proxy; an agent.
(n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
(n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
(v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
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(3) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(4) An Associated Press analysis found no evidence that Texas authorities were investigating threats to pharmacies, though the Oklahoma attorney general said he was examining an alleged bomb threat to a pharmacy in Tulsa .
(5) At a home less than a block away, a man identifying himself as Tamir’s uncle said the boy’s family was not commenting and referred reporters to an attorney.
(6) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(7) The attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, declined to say where in Philadelphia his client will live while prosecutors appeal the superior court ruling.
(8) 'Snooper's charter': Theresa May faces calls to improve bill to protect privacy Read more Ken Clarke, the Conservative former home secretary, and Dominic Grieve, the Tory former attorney general, suggested there could be improvements to the new laws that overhaul the state’s surveillance powers.
(9) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
(10) The shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said Heydon had “got it wrong” in his decision and had “not really approached this as an ordinary, fair-minded person would”.
(11) Decisions concerning appropriate treatment are often made by patients, attorneys, the disability determination system, employers, and judges for extraneous reasons, which include financial gain or personal bias and often reflect lack of current information.
(12) I want to make it very clear that the state’s attorney’s office did not release the Freddie Gray autopsy report,” she said.
(13) Because many of these issues are unresolved, it is important for health professionals to be aware of current professional standards and guidelines, as well as to consult with the hospital's attorney or risk manager when confronted with a legal or ethical dilemma.
(14) An official in the Chicago police department’s office of legal affairs, Victor Castillo, has told the Guardian’s attorney that he needed the mayor’s office to sign off on the disclosure of at least one Homan Square-related document.
(15) Police and an attorney for the Gray family have said previously that Gray suffered a severe spine injury.
(16) His attorneys allege that the department contracts with the Apothecary Shoppe to provide the drug set to be used in Taylor’s 26 February lethal injection.
(17) Police are expected to seek talks with government legal officials and may seek guidance from the attorney general.
(18) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
(19) Tim Casey, Arpaio's attorney, said the position of the Sheriff's Office "is that it has never used race and will never use race in its law-enforcement decisions."
(20) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
Conveyancer
Definition:
(n.) One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) From August, the bank will allow all members of the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) to act for it and the borrower in the conveyancing work needed to buy a property, increasing the number of firms consumers can choose from by more than 1,400.
(2) The price of these, in instances when deals are concluded, can be higher than usual to compensate the conveyancers for the occasions when deals collapse.
(3) Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January.
(4) Staff at Countrywide Property Lawyers, the biggest firm of residential conveyancers in the UK, have had to work overtime and weekends to cope with the extra business.
(5) I could no longer stand day after day sitting at the office doing conveyancing work.
(6) Ray Boulger, of the mortgage brokers John Charcol, said the experience of conveyancers and lenders in December fitted in with the pattern of applications from first-time buyers in the autumn.
(7) Peter Ambrose, director of conveyancing firm The Partnership, has a client who will exchange and complete simultaneously to meet the deadline and save £2,500.
(8) I shall be looking for a conveyancing solicitor but presume this is not something they would deal with.
(9) Doug Crawford, head of conveyancing firm My Home Move, said: “The stamp duty changes will turbo-charge the housing market over the next four months as buy-to-let landlords and holiday home buyers race to beat the deadline before the changes bite in April.
(10) Whichever type of conveyancer you use, always check charges upfront.
(11) This will be done either by a solicitor (all are qualified to do this work, although it pays to hire one who has experience) or by a dedicated licenced conveyancer.
(12) Conveyancers are authorised by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers and listed on its website .
(13) She says the Law Society's recent creation of a conveyancing quality scheme is "a tacit admission of this fact".
(14) An increasing number of borrowers are finding that their lender will not work with the law firm they have chosen to do their conveyancing – a situation that is reducing consumer choice and can add costs, hassle and delay to the homebuying process.
(15) Conveyancing is becoming increasingly competitive and there are now many fixed-rate deals - Saga, for example, has just launched one for £750 and several online providers offer similar services from about £500 upwards.
(16) In the original entry, the Wikipedia biography said: "It was revealed in May 2008 that Grant Shapps, along with other shadow ministers, had taken large donations from companies related to his frontbench portfolio … The revelations were potentially damaging for Shapps given the extent of the donations he had received – tens of thousands of pounds from two online mortgage brokers, an estate agent, a commercial property developer and a firm of solicitors specialising in conveyancing and remortgaging – and the suggestion that these might be influencing Conservative policies."
(17) "There has been a significant amount of fraud and loss to lenders and their clients out of conveyancing in recent years," says the CML's Sue Anderson.
(18) Since the credit crunch, some lenders work only with a panel of conveyancers who they regard as particularly scrupulous at checking on searches and ensuring there are no problems with the purchase (a process known as due diligence).
(19) Solicitors who reach consistently high standards of conveyancing, as tested by the Law Society can carry a kitemark-style logo stating they are in the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS).
(20) Or instead, use your existing solicitor or conveyancer or follow the recommendation of a trusted contact who has moved house – but you may be charged by your lender if it uses its own, separate approved conveyancer.