Devenerunt
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from devenire, to come, to come to; or fall to.] In old English practice. A writ directed to the escheator, where any tenant of the king, holding in capite, died; and his son and heir being within age, and in the king's custody, died; commanding the escheator that by the oaths of good and lawful men he inquire what lands and tenements, by the death of the tenant came to (devenerunt) the king. Termes de la ley.
Cowell. Dyer, 359 b.