Devise vs. Forgery

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

Forgerynoun

The act of forging metal into shape.

Forgerynoun

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.

Forgerynoun

That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.

Forgerynoun

(archaic) An invention, creation.

Forgerynoun

The act of forging metal into shape.

Forgerynoun

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.

Forgerynoun

That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.

Forgerynoun

a copy that is represented as the original

Forgerynoun

criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

Forgery

Forgery is a white-collar crime that generally refers to the false making or material alteration of a legal instrument with the specific intent to defraud anyone (other than themself). Tampering with a certain legal instrument may be forbidden by law in some jurisdictions but such an offense is not related to forgery unless the tampered legal instrument was actually used in the course of the crime to defraud another person or entity.