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Divestible

Capable of being divested

Devest, or divest

Devest, or divest [fr. de and vestis, Lat.], to deprive, to take away;

Divest

Divest. See DEVEST.

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divest

divest [Anglo-French devestir, literally, to undress, from Old French desvestir, from

Divestment

The act of divesting

Consideration

be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest

Uses

by copyhold surrenders, so as to have the effect of divesting prior vested estates. (2) Upon a demise to the grantee

Reading-in

benefice with cure of souls or perpetual curacy will be divested unless be publicly read in the church of the benefice,

Alien

Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 49), and divests himself of any other nationality; and see MARRIED WOMAN. A

Disrobe

To divest of a robe to undress figuratively to strip of covering

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