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Devisavit Vel Non

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In practice

The name of an issue sent out of a court of chancery, or one which exercises chancery jurisdiction, to a court of law, to try the validity of a paper asserted and denied to bea his will.

7 Brown, Parl. Cas. 437; 2 Atk. 424; 5 Pa. St. 21.