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Synonyms for devise

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for devise

to use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving

to give (property) to another person after one's death

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Synonyms for devise

a will disposing of real property

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(law) a gift of real property by will

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

arrange by systematic planning and united effort

give by will, especially real property

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The National Finance Commission is responsible to devise an acceptable formula for the sharing of devisable revenue of federal government.
The MMR is a significant investment of time, and the discussion that ensues is probably the best JO training devisable. Divos have to come to the meeting absolutely prepared to discuss their metrics.
Titling Basics FMV/date of death Title Form Basis Adjustment * Joint Tenancy ** Decedent's interest [IRC 1014(a)(1)] Traditional Community 100% step-up on first death Property [IRC 1014(b)(1)&(6)] CPWROS Undetermined Title Form Passes on Death Joint Tenancy ** Automatically to survivor (No probate) Traditional Community One-half devisable; Property Requires probate to transfer CPWROS Automatic transfer to survivor spouse (No probate) * While normally we think of this basis adjustment as a "step-up," an adjustment to fair-market value at date of death can also operate as a "step-down" in periods of declining asset values.
* Included devisable pool transfers, straight transfers and Profit from Hydroelectricity.
We arrive, then, at this result: as consequence of Chancery's protection of the cestui que use there is now a dual ownership of land, the legal title of the feoffee to uses, or trustee, and the equitable title of the cestui que use--an equitable title that is transferable., inheritable and devisable. (45.) See id.
The Court did not decide whether ERISA would permit a nonparticipant spouse to obtain a devisable community property interest in benefits actually paid out during the existence of the community between the participant and the spouse.
The suggestion Gregory Currie explores is that the narrative, both explicit and implicit, is best seen as delivered by an intentional hypothesis, one to the effect that most probably the author desired it to be understood from the text he presents to his readers that p (where "p" stands for the total story narrated).(1) What sustains this hypothesis, with the particular content p rather than a different content, p, is that it offers the best devisable explanation of the behaviour that generated the text from which we start out.
Particularly resented were (1) the rule requiring that freehold land pass by descent rather than by will, hence that land was not devisable; (2) the rigid shares of primogeniture and dower; and (3) the bizarre fiscal exactions, called wardship and marriage, that functioned as penal transfer
If the remainder is devisable or inheritable, as under current law, descendants will take the remainder unless the remainderman diverts it to others.
Given this challenge, Chicago-based Romanek Properties, Ltd., a privately held real estate investment/development company, set about to incorporate the most progressive HVAC system devisable in its construction of 633 St.
Elective work sharing is far more acceptable and a lot less devisable than any unilateral decision by the employer or even by a majority of workers in a local union.
(45) Ultimately, if two or more parties are determined to be joint authors of a work, they will receive an equal interest in the work that is both inheritable and devisable. Furthermore, permission of all coauthors will be required for an assignment or exclusive licensing of the work.