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Devisee

noun
1.
Someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will.






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... will;(333) provided only that the children had gone through the ceremony of being accepted and enrolled by the phratria. If the descendant had neglected this formality, and had failed to be recognised as a legal member of the kindred or clan, he or she lost all rights to the property, which went to the devisee or next of kin.(334) The right to possess land was thus at Athens, as at Sparta, intimately connected with the tribal organisation; and the claim for maintenance from the paternal estate could only lie, after full acknowledgment of the necessary ...
— On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay • Hugh E. Seebohm



Words linked to "Devisee" :   devise, donee, beneficiary



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