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Recent Examples of devisee
That can obviously set up some interesting, and potentially uncomfortable, situations for both the devisee and your surviving spouse.
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Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2022
When a person dies, his claim passes to his heirs or devisees, subject to the administration of his estate.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devisee
Noun
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This extends to LaBella, who is a third-party beneficiary of this stipulation as her stunt double.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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As for Eaton, there’s no doubt the company is a beneficiary of the AI boom due to its data center business.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
28 May 2025
Noun
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The result that the purchaser at the judicial sale ends up only as an assignee of the distributional rights, but without governance rights, is the result that will ordinarily be obtained outside of bankruptcy too.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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As a mere assignee of Addington's interest, BAL did not gain Addington's governance rights.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Trump and allies, meanwhile, often cast him as legatee of Reagan.—
David Jackson,
USA TODAY,
8 Sep. 2024
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Humans, as legatees of this heritage, learn by seeing and visualizing.—
Stephen Jay Gould,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
Noun
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This allows collaboratives like the CARE Fund to bring funders and grantees together to assess needs and develop strategy.—
Tom Chiodo,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Contractors, vendors and grantees who work with state agencies must follow the same restrictions, and are barred from storing the data.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025
Noun
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The trailer for the first film in the Housefull franchise in six years shows Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh and Abhishek A Bachchan on a giant cruise ship all claiming to be the real son and rightful heir to a fortune.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz, who many see as the heir to Nadal’s throne, is in action on Monday against Italian Giulio Zeppieri.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
Noun
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The claimant sought to pierce the trust to reach assets held in limited liability companies and the Court refused.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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But given that there are several types of benefits going out to 70 million payees, not every claimant receives their money at the same time.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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“Devisee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devisee. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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