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n. - Someone who bequeaths real property in a will.

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  • The device and its devisor were doomed by physics to fail.
  • A small deal on paper, yet Russia, the land of Periodic Table devisor and publisher Dmitri Mendeleev, has a wholesale drug market estimated by Unichem to be worth more...
  • A devisor may clearly devise or limit the possession of chattels, making them inalienable by devisees in succession.
  • We should be inclined to think the devisor entertained a singular predilection for the Old Cross, then in the pride of youth.
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  • A "deviser" is someone who plans or organizes, yet a "devisor" is one who transmits property through a will. A "divisor" is the number by which another number is divided.
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