devise : Idioms & Phrases


Lapsed devise, Lapsed legacy

  • (Law), a devise, or legacy, which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or for ether cause.
Webster 1913

Residuary devise

  • (Law), the person to whom the residue of real estate is devised by a will.
Webster 1913

self-devised

Self`-de*vised" adjective
Definitions
  1. Devised by one's self.
Webster 1913