Devise
De`vise´
| v. t. | 1. | To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument. |
| 2. | To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. |
| 3. | To say; to relate; to describe. |
| 4. | To imagine; to guess. |
| 5. | (Law) To give by will; - used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. |
| v. i. | 1. | To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. |
| n. | 1. | The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; - sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate. |
| 2. | A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. |
| 3. | Property devised, or given by will. |
| 1. | Device. See Device. |
DEVISE. A devise is a disposition of real property by a person's last will
and testament, to tale effect after the testator's death.
2. Its form is immaterial, provided the instrument is to take effect
after the death of the party; and a paper in the form of an indenture, which
is to have that effect, is considered as a devise. Finch. 195 6 Watts, 522;
3 Rawle, 15; 4 Desaus. 617, 313; 1 Mod. 117; 1 Black. R. 345.
3. The term devise, properly and technically, applies only to real
estate the object of the devise must therefore be that kind of property. 1
Hill. Ab. ch. 36, n. 62 to 74. Devise is also sometimes improperly applied
to a bequest or legacy. (q.v.) Vide 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2095, et seq; 4 Kent,
Com. 489 8 Vin. Ab. 41 Com. Dig. Estates by Devise.
4. In the Year Book, 9 H. VI. 24, b. A. D. 1430, Babington says, the
nature of a devise, when lands are devisable, is, that one can devise that
his lands shall be sold by executors and this is good. And a devise in such
form has always been in use. And so a man may have frank tenement of him who
had nothing, in the same manner as one may have fire from a flint, and yet
there is no fire in the flint. But it is to perform the last will of the
devisor.
add a codicil,
arrange,
assemble,
assign,
attested copy,
beget,
bequeath,
bequeathal,
bequest,
bestow,
blueprint,
breed,
bring forth,
bring into being,
build,
calculate,
call into being,
cast,
chart,
codicil,
cogitate,
coin,
collogue,
collude,
compose,
compound,
conceive,
concert,
connive,
conspire,
construct,
contrive,
convey,
cook up,
cut out,
design,
develop,
discover,
dispose of,
dope out,
draft,
dream up,
elaborate,
engender,
entail,
erect,
evolve,
execute a will,
extrude,
fabricate,
fashion,
figure,
forecast,
forge,
form,
formulate,
frame,
fudge together,
generate,
get up,
give,
give being to,
give rise to,
hand down,
hand on,
hatch,
hatch up,
improvise,
indite,
inheritance,
intend,
intrigue,
lay plans,
leave,
legacy,
legate,
machinate,
make,
make a bequest,
make a projection,
make a will,
make arrangements,
make do with,
make up,
manufacture,
mature,
methodize,
mint,
mold,
organize,
originate,
pass on,
patch together,
piece together,
plan,
plan ahead,
prearrange,
prefabricate,
prepare,
probate,
procreate,
produce,
program,
project,
put together,
put up,
raise,
rationalize,
rear,
run up,
schedule,
schematize,
scheme,
set up,
shape,
spawn,
strike out,
systematize,
testament,
think out,
think up,
transfer,
transmit,
vamp up,
whomp up,
will,
will and bequeath,
will to,
work out,
work up,
write