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Definition of Devises
1. devise [v] - See also: devise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devises
Literary usage of Devises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Emory Washburn, Joseph Willard, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1887)
"Nature and Classification of such devises. SECT. 2. How Rules as to Perpetuities
affect Executory devises. SECT. 3. Limitations upon Failure, &c., ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"I must not, however, omit, that in devises by last will and testament (which,
being often drawn up when the party is inops consilii (without counsel), ..."
3. An Elementary Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1892)
"Classes of executory devises. 533. Distinguished from devises in ... Indestructibility
of executory devises. 54J. Limitation upon failure of issue. 543. ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1885)
"Classes of executory devises. 533. Distinguished from devises in praesenti ...
Indestructibility of executory devises. 542. Limitation upon failure of issue ..."
5. A Concise Treatise on the Construction of Wills by Francis Vaughan Hawkins, John Sword, Frederick Moore Leonard (1885)
"Residuary devises. A devise of the residue of the testator's real estate has not
the same extended meaning as a bequest of the residuary personal estate ..."
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