Reconveyed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To restore ownership of something to its former proprietor To pass back the rights or property to the individual who originally held them To hand over or return control of an asset to its initial owner
2. To give property back to the person who owned it previously
3. To return rights or ownership of an asset to its original holder

Etymology: "Reconveyed" is the past tense and past participle of "reconvey," a verb built by adding the prefix "re-" (meaning "back" or "again") to "convey." The more useful part of the story is "convey" itself, which came into English from Old French "conveier," meaning to accompany or escort someone on a journey, and which in turn grew from Latin "conviare," to conduct along the way. Its sense of carrying something from one place to another, and then of transferring legal title to property, grew out of that original idea of guiding someone along a road. In legal use, "convey" came to mean transferring property or the title to it from one owner to another, a sense that is still standard in property law. Adding "re-" produced "reconvey," which describes the title or property going back again to its former holder. The reconveyance of a property, then, means the owner's rights are handed back to the original party, often once a debt secured on the land has been paid off.

Synonyms: retransmitted, returned, re-delivered