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Definition of Devisors
1. devisor [n] - See also: devisor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devisors
Literary usage of Devisors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"But instead of furthering, it would tend to defeat the object in view, which was
the relief of creditors, by enabling devisors, by means of devisees to ..."
2. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"... the devisors are pinched by the messengers of death,) do arise and good.
Coward v. Marshall, Cro. Eliz. 721. Hungerford v. ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"3, than this declaration ; here is a peer slandered by devisors of false and
horrible lies, whereby debates and discords may arise between the Lords or ..."
4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1811)
"... than this declaration ; here is a peer slandered by devisors'of false and
horrible lies, whereby debates and discords may »rise between the Lords or ..."
5. An Introduction to Conveyancing, and the New Statutes Concerning Real by William Hayes (1840)
"... or through his ancestors or devisors, or any of them, (except the respective
persons whose estates and interests are hereinafter excepted, ..."
6. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1832)
"Infants—when they mny be devisors, viii. 101; when they may be devisees, viii.
101 ; joint tenants, viii. ... Femes covert—when they maybe devisors, viii. ..."
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