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Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is more properly an executory bequest) as the law admits in the case of a will, though contrary to the rules of limitation in conveyances at Common Law. It is only an indulgence allowed to a man's last will and testament, where otherwise the words of the will would be void; for wherever a future interest is so limited by devise as to operate as a contingent remainder, such an interest is not an executory devise, but a contingent remainder.Executory Devises have been divided into three kinds, two relative to real, and the third to personal estate only, viz.:-(1) Where a testator devises his whole fee-simple, but upon some contingency qualifies such devise, and limits an estate on the contingency; e.g., a devise of land to the testator's wife for life, remainder to C., his second son ...
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Devise
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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Capable of being devised invented or contrived...
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Devise
To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas new applications of principles or new arrangement of parts to formulate by thought to contrive to excogitate to invent to plan to scheme as to devise an engine a new mode of writing a plan of defense or an argument...
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