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Disposition

'disposition' has been defined in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary as a devise 'intended to comprehend a mode by which property can pass,

and asserting a right to hold on a quitrent. A devisee in fee may, by deed, without matter of record, disclaim

a will. The broad rule is, that wherever realty is devised to several persons in tail as tenants-in-common, and it appears

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restrictions whatever. The denizen might hold lands by purchase or devise, which an alien might not, but could not take by

testator' intention, according to law. Thus, where a testator has devised lands in a manner transgressing the rules of perpetuity and

been created as a springing or shifting use or executory devise or other executory limitation. Contingent remainders are subject to the

on which such preceding interest depends. As when a testator devises to A. for life; and if he have issue male,

no effect till after his death, and that is by devise, contained in his last will and testament, 2 Bl. Com.

Clauses irritant and resolutive, clauses devised for limiting the right of an absolute proprietor, and making

expressly restrained by the terms of the conveyance, settlement, or devise, to reasonable estovers or botes, i.e., necessary wood, such as

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