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Devise

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Devise [fr. deviser, Fr., to sort into parcels], a gift or disposition by will. The giver is called the devisor or testator, the person to whom it is given the devisee. This word is properly only applied to real property, but, in wills, it may, upon construction, transmit personal property as well as the word bequeath, the proper term-and vice versa. See Hall v. Hall, (1892) 1 Ch 361.

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