Demise vs. Devise
Demisenoun
(legal) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
Demisenoun
Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
Demisenoun
Death.
Demisenoun
The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.
Demiseverb
To give.
Demiseverb
To convey, as by will or lease.
Demiseverb
To transmit by inheritance.
Demiseverb
To pass by inheritance.
Demiseverb
(intransitive) To die.
Demisenoun
Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
Demisenoun
The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.
Demisenoun
The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
Demiseverb
To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
Demiseverb
To convey; to give.
Demiseverb
To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
Demisenoun
the time when something ends;
Demise
Demise is an Anglo-Norman legal term (from French démettre, from Latin dimittere, to send away) for the transfer of an estate, especially by lease. It has an operative effect in a lease, implying a covenant The phrase is used in English law to signify the immediate transfer of the sovereignty, with all its attributes and prerogatives, to the successor without any interregnum in accordance with the maxim At common law the death of the sovereign eo facto dissolved Parliament, but this was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1867.
Deviseverb
(transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
Deviseverb
(transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
Deviseverb
To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
Deviseverb
To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
Deviseverb
(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
Devisenoun
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Devisenoun
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
Devisenoun
The real property left in such a will.
Devisenoun
Design, devising.
Deviseverb
To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
Deviseverb
To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
Deviseverb
To say; to relate; to describe.
Deviseverb
To imagine; to guess.
Deviseverb
To give by will; - used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
Deviseverb
To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
Devisenoun
The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; - sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
Devisenoun
A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
Devisenoun
Property devised, or given by will.
Devisenoun
Device. See Device.
Devisenoun
a will disposing of real property
Devisenoun
(law) a gift of real property by will
Deviseverb
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;
Deviseverb
arrange by systematic planning and united effort;
Deviseverb
give by will, especially real property
