Devise - Law Dictionary Search Results
Trust
upon a will unless by a testamentary or codicillary paper executed with the statutory formalities, but if a devise or bequest of the legal estate be accompanied with any mala fides in the devisee or legatee, as
Tail
words were terms of limitation and not gifts to children or issue as purchasers or otherwise; thus a devise. To A. and his issue; or To A. and his seed; or children; or sons; or To A.
Emblements
living, or forfeits it by his own act, is not entitled to emblements, although his lessee is. By devise, the devise may, without express words, be entitled to the growing crops. But a legatee of the goods,
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Election
person who takes under an instrument must give effect to every part of it. Thus, if a testator devises his own estate to A and A's estate to B, A must elect whether he will take 'under'
election
right of a spouse to choose a statutorily prescribed amount of a deceased spouse's estate or whatever was devised to him or her under the will b : the right of a person who has an interest
Ex gravi querela
Ex gravi querela, a writ that lay for him to whom any lands or tenements in fee were devised (within any city, town, or borough wherein lands were devisable by custom), against the heir of the devisor
Money land
Money land. In equity, land articled or devised to be sold, and turned into money, is considered as money, and money articled or bequeathed to be
Tenementis legatis
lying to the City of London, or any other corporation (where the old custom was, that men might devise by will lands and tenements, as well as goods and chattels), for the hearing and determining any controversy
Property
is of three sorts: absolute, qualified, and possessory. Property in realty is acquired by entry, conveyance, descent, or devise; and in personalty, by many ways, but most usually by gift, bequest, or bargain and sale. Under the
Quorum
then it is competent for the committee itself to fix the quorum as part of its power to devise its day-today procedure. Quorum does not apply to bodies doing judicial function. Quorum is fixed for meetings of
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