Devise - Law Dictionary Search Results
Pretex
To frame to devise to disguise or excuse hence to pretend to declare falsely
Acquiesce
of the language of the Explanation which makes sub-s. (1) applicable to acquisition of property by inheritance or devise or at a partition or in lieu of maintenance or arrears of maintenance or by gift or by
Antenati
estate, Doe v. Vardill, (1835) 2 Cl & F 571; 7 ib. 895; but he could take as devisee under a devise to children [Re Grey's Trusts, (1892) 3 Ch 88]. See Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 &
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Apportionment
the tenant by irruption of the sea, also by act of parties, e.g., upon surrender, release, grant or devise of part of demised land. The right to apportionment is a question of law, the apportionment may be
Assurances
assurances of land to charitable uses, as including 'a gift, conveyance, appointment, lease, transfer, settlement, mortgage charge, incumbrance devise, bequest, and every other assurance by deed, will, or other instrument.' For other definitions see (English) Law of
Bargain and sale
by deed enrolled within six months in the records of one of the King's Courts at Westminster. The devise of a lease and release (q. v., post.) was then resorted to, to evade enrolment. For other enactments
viatical settlement
compensation for less than the expected death benefit of the policy in return for an assignment, transfer, sale, devise, or bequest of the death benefit or ownership of the policy to the other party (as a company
Bote
if he is impeachable for waste and unless expressly restrained by the terms of the conveyance, settlement, or devise, to reasonable estovers or botes, i.e., necessary wood, such as house-bote, plough-bote, cart-bote, and hay-bote or hedge-bote. House-bote
Divisa
Divisa, a device, award, or decree; also a devise; also bounds or limits of division of a parish or farm, etc., Cowel. Also a Court held on
Common assurances
party conveying or assuring. (4) The fourth takes no effect till after his death, and that is by devise, contained in his last will and testament, 2 Bl. Com. 294.
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