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Devisavit vel non

Devisavit vel non, an issue sent from the Court of Chancery to a Court of law, to try the

the Royal Prerogative, and is subject to no restrictions whatever. The denizen might hold lands by purchase or devise, which an alien might not, but could not take by inheritance before the (English) Naturalization Act, 1870; for

Cy-pres

object, as near as may be to the testator' intention, according to law. Thus, where a testator has devised lands in a manner transgressing the rules of perpetuity and the Court can by giving the estates tail

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Cross-remainders

a deed, and should be expressly limited in a will. The broad rule is, that wherever realty is devised to several persons in tail as tenants-in-common, and it appears to be the testator's intention that nopart should

Marriage

as to personalty [Re Goodman's Trusts, (1881) 17 Ch D 266], and they could take under a specific devise or real estate to 'children', Gray v. Stamford, (1892) 3 Ch 88. The law of England will not

Contingency with a double aspect

any way, through the failure of the contingency on which such preceding interest depends. As when a testator devises to A. for life; and if he have issue male, then to such issue male and his heirs

Common assurances

party conveying or assuring. (4) The fourth takes no effect till after his death, and that is by devise, contained in his last will and testament, 2 Bl. Com. 294.

Clauses irritant and resolutive

Clauses irritant and resolutive, clauses devised for limiting the right of an absolute proprietor, and making effectual the conditions imposed on him, which otherwise

Malik or milkiyat

Malik or milkiyat, See, Ram Kishorelal v. Kamalanarayan, AIR 1963 SC 890. Malik, a devise or donee described as a 'malik' has a full right of alienation unless there is something in the

Trust for sale

unless they elected to take the property as realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty in the testator's lifetime the property resulted to the heir-at-law, Ackroyd v. Smithson, (1780) 1 Bro

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