(n.) The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.
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.
Pleading
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plead
(n.) The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.
Example Sentences:
(1) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(2) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(3) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(4) Seven more were charged in the US and four more, including the former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty.
(5) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(6) One little boy grabbed me and pleaded with me, that the Jungle was not a good place, and he didn’t want to be there.” Last month, protesters staged a die-in at St Pancras station in London against plans to clear the area of the Jungle.
(7) The results observed plead in favour of the notion that frozen-defrosted blood, combines the advantages of washed blood, freed from all plasma and cellular contaminants of fresh blood with preservation of the oxyphoric power.
(8) It stated that, at the Place du Canada rally, prime minister Pierre Trudeau pleaded with Quebecers to vote no.
(9) One group of clergy had spent the evening marching through the west side, pleading with people to remain peaceful.
(10) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(11) Wildstein, a high-ranking Port Authority official, pleaded guilty to orchestrating the scheme and was the prosecution’s star witness .
(12) The film director faced a jail term after he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with Samantha Gailey (now Geimer), then aged 13.
(13) Next to Aung San Suu Kyi was General Zaw Win, deputy minister for border affairs, who accompanied the Guardian to Rakhine state in December, where he openly laughed at a teary-eyed Rohingya man in an internally displaced persons camp who pleaded : "We are real Rohingya – please recognise us."
(14) The Premier League set up a disciplinary tribunal to try West Ham, who in April 2007 pleaded guilty.
(15) And secretary of state Hillary Clinton, visiting Hungary in 2011, pleaded for “a real commitment to the independence of the judiciary, a free press, and governmental transparency”.
(16) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
(17) David Coleman Headley, 49, pleaded guilty in a US court yesterday to all 12 counts he faced.
(18) But when it was suggested by the court that he could face five years in prison if he fought the charges he pleaded guilty – and was then shocked when he was handed 18 months in military detention rather than the expected suspended sentence.
(19) Breadline defendants are choosing to plead guilty and pay the £150 rather than run the risk of an even higher charge by pleading not guilty.
(20) Gun sales are continuing to spike around Ferguson, Missouri, as security firms plead with authorities to make it easier for them to hire new guards in advance of a grand jury’s decision on whether to charge a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black 18-year-old.