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DERIVATIVE CONVEYANCES Definition & Legal Meaning

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Conveyances which presuppose some other conveyanceprecedent, and only serve to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore, or transfer theinterest granted by such original conveyance. They are releases, confirmations,surrenders, assignments, and defeasances. 2 Bl. Comm. 324.

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