Devest Or Divest - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: devest or divestDevest, or divest
Devest, or divest [fr. de and vestis, Lat.], to deprive, to take away; opposite to invest, which is to deliver possession of anything to another....
devest
devest : divest ...
Divest
Divest. See DEVEST....
Devest
To divest to undress...
divest
divest [Anglo-French devestir, literally, to undress, from Old French desvestir, from de(s)-, prefix marking reversal + vestir to dress, from Latin vestire] : to deprive or dispossess (oneself) of property through divestiture di·vest·ment n ...
Divestible
Capable of being divested...
Divestment
The act of divesting...
Denude
To divest of all covering to make bare or naked to strip to divest as to denude one of clothing or lands the hurricane denuded the trees...
Disrobe
To divest of a robe to undress figuratively to strip of covering to divest of that which clothes or decorates as autumn disrobes the fields of verdure...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
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