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Devisor

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Devise

[fr. deviser, Fr., to sort into parcels], a gift or disposition by will. The giver is called the devisor or testator, the person to whom it is given the devisee. This word is properly only applied to

Ex gravi querela

devised (within any city, town, or borough wherein lands were devisable by custom), against the heir of the devisor when he entered and detained them from him, Reg. Brev. 224. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4,

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