Devise - Law Dictionary Search Results
Real representative
(English) TRANSFER OF LAND ACTS], the real estate of a deceased person vested in his heir, heiresses, or devisees, and his personal estate in his executors or administrators. The (English) Land Transfer act, 1897, (60 & 61
Springing use
vivos are good, apart from the Statute of Uses if made by will at Common Law as executory devises, but apart from statute (see CONTINGENT REMAIN-DERS), executory devises like springing or shifting uses are not so construed
Tenancy in Common
deed of partition; (2) By the union of all the titles and interests in one tenant by grant, devise, surrender, or otherwise, which reduces the whole estate to a severalty; (3) By compulsory partition. See PARTITION; UNDIVDED
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distribution
property and esp. personal property of an intestate among those entitled to it according to statute compare descent, devise NOTE: The laws dealing with intestate succession are often called laws of descent and distribution. b : 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
legacy
property by will ;specif : a gift of personal property by will : bequest see also ademption compare devise conjoint legacy in the civil law of Louisiana : a legacy by a single disposition to more than
devisee
devisee : one to whom a devise of property is made compare heir, legatee, next of kin
convey
a deed or will) [agreed to to the estate his Manhattan town house "R. H. Jensen"] compare alienate, devise, donate, give, grant, sell con·vey·ee [kən-vā-ē] n con·vey·or [kən-vā-ər] n
bequeath
by will used esp. of personal property but sometimes of real property ; see also legacy, legatee compare devise
alienate
assign, hypothecate or otherwise any of his voting shares "Strickland v. Rahaim, 549 So. 2d 58 (1989)"] compare devise alien·ation [ā-lē-ə-nā-shən, āl-yə-] n
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