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Definition of Devests
1. devest [v] - See also: devest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devests
Literary usage of Devests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"In order to constitute an acceptance within this clause, there must be such an
actual parting with the possession as devests the vendor of his lien. ..."
2. A Treatise on Conveyancing with a View to Its Application to Practice by Richard Preston (1806)
"Sometimes also a fine devests an estate without discontinuing it; and when it
devests the estate there is merely a right of entry, and Ho estate in the ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"But it has been already shown that it devests no such rights, except in favor of
existing liens, of paramount ob- 654 ligation; and that the estate was ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench: And by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1854)
"That, I think, is too violent a presumption. Sect. 37 expressly vests the property,
and devests it in one case only; sect. ..."
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