devise

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devise

A transfer of real property by virtue of the provisions in a will. Contrast with descent, which is a transfer by virtue of statutory provisions controlling ownership of real estate when one dies without a will.

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52) These meetings helped to put programme content devisors and owners, and potential licensees, in touch with one another on a regular and formalised basis.

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132) They meant, in their rhetoric at least, that instability of the common law potentially unsettled security of land title and frustrated the intentions of devisors.

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Youpee, (57) the Court exhibited a particular concern for the property rights of devisors, concluding in both cases that federal legislation limiting the right of tribal members to pass on property to their heirs effected a taking.