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a common legal phrase used in will drafting that indicates the transfer of title and property to an heir. … [Read more...] about DEVISE AND GRANT

A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient's illness or the determination of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to be little more than a guess enlightened by experience. Swan v. Railroad Co., 79 Hun, 612, 29 N. Y. Supp. 337. … [Read more...] about DIAGNOSIS

A person to whom a devise has been made. 2. All persons who are in rerum natura, and even embryos, may be devisees, unless excepted by some positive law. In general, he who can acquire property by his labor and industry, may receive a devise. NOTE: Usually the person or entity who inherits real property under a will. … [Read more...] about DEVISEE

That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning. … [Read more...] about DIALECTICS

A testator; one, who devises his real estate. 2. As a general rule all persons who. may sell an estate may devise it. The disabilities of devisors may be classed, in three divisions. 1. Infancy. In some of the United States this disability is partially removed; in Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi and Ohio, an unmarried woman at the age of eighteen years may devise. 2. Coverture. … [Read more...] about DEVISOR