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Definition of Divesting
1. divest [v] - See also: divest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divesting
Literary usage of Divesting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations by William David Lewis (1843)
"And same, although party taking under first gift, die before period or event
contemplated by divesting clause. of the original gift being coincident, ..."
2. Estates, Future Interests, and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois by Albert Martin Kales (1920)
"Interests are not divested unless the event upon which the divesting is to occur
strictly happens: ' This is the application of a general rule that the ..."
3. Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed: Military Secretary of Washington, at by William Bradford Reed (1847)
"Legislative measures of President Reed's Administration—Messages of September
and November, 1779—Proprietary Estates—The Divesting Act of 1779 —State of the ..."
4. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... robbers, murderers, &c., but divesting them of humanity, and converting them
into savages and perfect devils in human shape.1 SEPTEMBER 11. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"... (m) if there is no disposition over, (m1) and whether precedent (n) or
subsequent, (o) are inoperative for the vesting or divesting of the legacy. ..."
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