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Devisee

One to whom a devise is made or real estate given by will

To form by an exercise of ingenuity to devise to invent to design to plan

Chancery (who prepared the original writ) had no authority to devise new forms for such cases, or they were remiss in

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Property in realty is acquired by entry, conveyance, descent, or devise; and in personalty, by many ways, but most usually by

to fix the quorum as part of its power to devise its day-today procedure. Quorum does not apply to bodies doing

of a deceased person vested in his heir, heiresses, or devisees, and his personal estate in his executors or administrators. The

Uses if made by will at Common Law as executory devises, but apart from statute (see CONTINGENT REMAIN-DERS), executory devises like

all the titles and interests in one tenant by grant, devise, surrender, or otherwise, which reduces the whole estate to a

other corporation (where the old custom was, that men might devise by will lands and tenements, as well as goods and

realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty in the testator's lifetime the property resulted to

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