devises
noun
Meaning
- The act of leaving real property in a will.
- Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
- The real property left in such a will.
- Design, devising.
- To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
- To leave (property) in a will.
- To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
- To imagine; to guess.
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