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  • noun Plural form of devisee.

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Examples

  • State governments do not themselves take title to this unclaimed property, but hold the property in perpetuity as custodian for the owner or the owner's heirs and devisees.

    June 2006 2006

  • State governments do not themselves take title to this unclaimed property, but hold the property in perpetuity as custodian for the owner or the owner's heirs and devisees.

    Aprill on Federal Tax Consequences of State Unclaimed Property Laws 2006

  • Registration is constructive notice to all the world; if not registered, a deed is only valid against the parties to it and the heirs and devisees of the grantor.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

  • _ Hoch (1 Watts, 9), that the period named was a limitation not of the lien but of the debt itself, and available in favor of heirs and devisees, volunteers under the debtor and succeeding to his rights _cum onere_.

    An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood

  • Lien was considered to mean lien and not obligation: lands to be subject to execution for all debts of the owner prosecuted to judgment, and of course not barred by the Statute of Limitations; and the limitation of the lien merely intended for the protection of purchasers from the heirs or devisees or their lien creditors.

    An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood

  • On the other hand the real estate vests in the devisees or heirs and does not go to the administrator, unless by statute enactment, which was in part true in

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

  • Mr. Frederick Waugh Smith, one of the devisees and legatees under the will of Miss Mary Amelia Smith, viz., that he will refrain from his proposed proposed attack upon said will upon condition that the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia surrender in absolute right the one-half of the estate passing under said will to said

    Board of Visitors minutes 1918

  • The general rule is, where a widow renounces provisions of a will and elects to take under the law, and where devisees and legatees are disappointed in realizing the provisions made for them, by the widow, that the benefits renounced by the widow are equitably applied as far as possible in compensating the losses so sustained by her election ....

    Board of Visitors minutes 1917

  • But what of the situation arising when by the widow's election a loss results to other legatees and devisees by reason of the abatement of their portions to make up the full amount to which the widow is entitled?

    Board of Visitors minutes 1917

  • The renunciation of the widow could not defeat the gift of the remainder, but the latter becomes immediately accelerated, charged however, with the equity in favor of disappointed devisees.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1917

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