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I was reading a wikipedia page and stumbled upon this sentence.
A layman or straw man is a figure not intended to have a genuine beneficial interest in a property, to whom such property is nevertheless conveyed in order to facilitate a transaction.
I don't completely understand the sentence in italic, especially what it means by "conveyed".
Can anyone explain?
Convey is a nice catch-all word meaning transfer or move (to). If whatever is being conveyed can't be moved, like land, then convey means pass the title to. Convey doesn't specify how it's effected—for example, by sale, gift, assignment, etc. That part is what your example discusses.
