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: a common-law doctrine providing that an heir receiving a devise of an estate that is the same as the estate

prescribed amount of a deceased spouse's estate or whatever was devised to him or her under the will b : the

is not entitled to emblements, although his lessee is. By devise, the devise may, without express words, be entitled to the

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succeeding to a particular form of land contract by gift, devise, exchange, or sale. The payment equaled 2% of the purchase

Devisavit vel non, an issue sent from the Court of Chancery

important provisions as to the making, revocation, etc., of wills devising land, and as to nuncupative wills, etc., which have been

uses, which conferred a legal title answering to an executory devise; as when a limitation to the use of A. in

will; if by will, it is also called an executory devise. The (English) Conveyancing Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c.

(English) L.P. Act, 1925, where an estate was conveyed or devised to a man and his wife during coverture, they were

Divisa, a device, award, or decree; also a devise; also bounds or limits of division of a parish or

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