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Conveyance
Conveyancing is the comprehensive legal process of buying, selling and transferring interests in assets. It involves much more than transferring title—it includes advising on contracts, conducting legal due diligence, investigating title and planning issues, negotiating contractual terms, satisfying finance and settlement requirements, and ensuring ownership is transferred securely and in accordance with Queensland law. A properly managed conveyance protects your legal rights, reduces risk and provides confidence throughout every stage of the transaction.
The origin of the word "Conveyance"
Conveyancing has always been about one thing: providing certainty that ownership has passed from one person to another.
Origins
The word "conveyancing" has a facsinating history because it reflects the evolution of property ownership over nearly a thousand years. The modern solicitor's role in a conveyance is, in many respects, the descendant of medieval ceremories that physically transferred land from one person to another.
The medieval England
In medieval England, there was no land titles registry. Livery of seisin was the principal method of transferring ownership of freehold land before modern deeds and land registration existed.
Deed of Transfer
By the sixteen centry, lawyers increasingly relied upon written conveyances rather than public rituals.
Even today a deed is not merely signed, it must also be delivered, reflecting the historial evolution from the physical delivery of possession to the legal delivery of the documents.
The Modern Era
Today the process has become entirely documentary.
A modern conveyance typically involves:
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negotiation of the contract;
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legal due diligence;
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title investigations;
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mortgage documentation;
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settlement;
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registration of title.
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