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Definition of Devolving
1. devolve [v] - See also: devolve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devolving
Literary usage of Devolving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Wills and Succession as Administered in Scotland: Including by John M'Laren (1894)
"SECTION I. VALIDITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND EFFECT OF devolving CLAUSES. 1000.
Such clauses have reference ... For obvious reasons, a devolving clause is only ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"Dy devolving to one person. Title XVIII. Joint Tenancy. CA. II. j. 47—50.
make partition, with a partition made under such an agreement,• will not bind the ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1895)
"devolving the power of creating 119. Charters refused with power to corporations
on the courts. confer decrees. 111. Objects for which the courts may 120. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"The subject of the relation of clinics to universities and the duties devolving
upon professors of psychiatry deserve more than a passing mention. ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"... and therefore we cannot understand how there could be any legal obligation or
duty devolving on Gaissert to pay ..."
6. The Law of Scotland in Relation to Wills and Succession: Including the by John M'Laren (1868)
"For obvious reasons, a devolving clause is only efficacious when it enters into
the destination of a strict entail, (a) A clause, annexed to a simple ..."
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