"Devisee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will;(333) provided only that the children had gone through the ceremony of being accepted and enrolled by the phratria. If the descendant had neglected this formality, and had failed to be recognised as a legal member of the kindred or clan, he or she lost all rights to the property, which went to the devisee or next of kin.(334) The right to possess land was thus at Athens, as at Sparta, intimately connected with the tribal organisation; and the claim for maintenance from the paternal estate could only lie, after full acknowledgment of the necessary ...
— On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay • Hugh E. Seebohm
... gift. I contested the will and lost the case. It was an undoubted will, and in my father's own handwriting, and dated more than a year before he died and when I was rusticating from college. I thought I must needs sow my wild oats, and day after to-morrow I pay for them all by total beggary. The devisee, by the will, acted very strangely about the property. He did not disturb me for a very long time. He probably feared to do so; and then he made a mortgage of one hundred thousand dollars on the property, took ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various
... will, and in my father's own handwriting, and dated more than a year before he died and when I was rusticating from college. I thought I must needs sow my wild oats, and day after to-morrow I pay for them all by total beggary. The devisee, by the will, acted very strangely about the property. He did not disturb me for a very long time. He probably feared to do so; and then he made a mortgage of one hundred thousand dollars on the property, took the ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various
... manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour[obs3], landed gentry, mesne lord[obs3]; planter. cestui-que-trust[Fr], beneficiary, mortgagor. grantee, feoffee[obs3], releasee[Law], relessee[obs3], devisee; legatee, legatary[obs3]. trustee; holder &c. of the legal estate; mortgagee. right owner, rightful owner. [Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress; inheritor, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... cohabitation, she obtained such influence over him that he took her for one of his wives and (she seems to have been the favorite) put her at the head of his harem; and having a son by her, this son succeeded to his authority and estate,—Munny Begum, the mother, being by his will a devisee of considerable sums of money, and other effects, on which he left a charge, which has since been applied to the service of the East India Company. The son of this lady dying, and a son by another wife succeeding, and dying ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
