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Heir By Devise

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

One to whom lands are devised by will; a devisee of lands. Answering to the haeres f actus (q. v.) of the civil law.