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as to personalty [Re Goodman's Trusts, (1881) 17 Ch D 266], and they could take under a specific devise or real estate to 'children', Gray v. Stamford, (1892) 3 Ch 88. The law of England will not

Original Writ or Original

it seems that either the clerks of the Chancery (who prepared the original writ) had no authority to devise new forms for such cases, or they were remiss in its exercise. Therefore, by the statute of West.

leave

leave left leav·ing : bequeath devise

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Malik or milkiyat

Malik or milkiyat, See, Ram Kishorelal v. Kamalanarayan, AIR 1963 SC 890. Malik, a devise or donee described as a 'malik' has a full right of alienation unless there is something in the

Bequeath

Bequeath [fr. becw'than fr. cw'than, A.S., to say], to leave by will to another. The word is properly applied to personalty only, but in a will avails to transmit real property, as well as the word...

Laudemium

sum paid to a landowner by a person succeeding to a particular form of land contract by gift, devise, exchange, or sale. The payment equaled 2% of the purchase money, and was paid to the landowner for

principal

shall be applied first to interest and then to ] ;also : the main body of an estate, devise, or bequest

Contrive

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

Devisee

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

Excogitate

To think out to find out or discover by thinking to devise to contrive

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