Deviser
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Fr. To devise. Some make the proper meaning of this word to be, to speak; others, to will. Co, Litt. Ilia. Brands. It is, more correctly, to divide, or distribute, from the Lat. dividere, Houard's Diet, cited 4 Kent's Com. 501, note.