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Hereditaments

on an intestacy, might, before the 1st January, 1926, have devolved on the heir--descent to the heir having been abolished, save

to a life or lives was that freeholds of inheritance devolved at law upon the heir or devisee, while chattels real

comprehensive sense as indicating a person upon whom the property devolves on the death of another and hence when the intent

provides that the official patronage of a professing Jew shall devolve on the Archbishop of Canterbury. By s. 3 of the

borrowed money, to be repaid when the expected property shall devolve upon them. From the uncertainty of this period, the unsoundness

or lessee is no longer bound by these obligations, which devolve with the reversion and the land upon the respective assignees,

To devolve

To roll onward or downward to pass on

on death of this third person, the entire advowson will devolve in gross upon his heir or devisee, Mirehouse on Advowsons,

v. Moore-Smyth, 1896 AC 158. Estate pur autre vie now devolve on the personal representative (Administration of Estates Act,1925, s. 11),