The device and its devisor were doomed by physics to fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Castellanos: Broken Window Economics] Reference

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 than £3 billion--a market that is expected to grow at low double-digit rates for the foreseeable future.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K. Faces Of The Week, Feb. 13-17] Reference

A devisor may clearly devise or limit the possession of chattels, making them inalienable by devisees in succession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

We should be inclined to think the devisor entertained a singular predilection for the Old Cross, then in the pride of youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [An History of Birmingham (1783)] Reference

Vanja Draganic, a performer/devisor who Die Deutsche Bühne called, "inspired and terrifying" (Schulte 2007), makes her New Zealand directorial debut in this exploration of the effects of power on ordinary people.    From Wordnik.com.  [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference

"Fifa's plan would be to appoint an independent company to be responsible for testing the chosen system and it looks pretty promising that will happen," says Paul Hawkins, managing director and devisor of Hawk-Eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

In a devise to a roan and his heirs, the word heirs is used only to measare out the quantity of estate which the devisee is to take, and not a3 a word of purchase; for which reason if the devisee dies in tlie life of the devisor, his heirs shall not take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference

All wills shall be in writing and signed by the party devising, or by some other person in his presence and by his express direction, and shall be attested and subscribed, in the presence of said devisor, by three or more credible witnesses, each in the presence of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

They would, moreover, have had the supreme satisfaction of knowing that they had not only exceeded the most sanguine anticipations of the devisor of this trust, but, in having solved the problem of dealing with illiterate and indigent masses, they had furnished an object-lesson in political economy of inestimable value to the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion] Reference

Page 418 cousin Hetty Lomax, jointly, and to their heirs forever, on condition that the said devisees should intermarry with each other within one year from the death of the devisor; and in case either of the said devisees should refuse to intermarry with the other, then the part of such devisee was to go to the other, who should thereafter hold the fee in severalty, free of all claim from the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bricks without Straw A Novel] Reference

“A devisor may clearly devise or limit the possession of chattels, making them inalienable by devisees in succession.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

29 aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

Http://www. tjukkband.no/devisor/ap/IMGP0014-Edit. jpg.    From Wordnik.com.  [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

'cabined, cribbed, confined,' by the authentic recorded whatabouts, whenabouts, and whereabouts of William Shakspeare, actor, owner, purchaser, and chattels and messuage devisor whilom of the Globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852] Reference

That the said Trustees and their successors, or a majority of them by the name aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to bargain, sell, grant, demise, alien or dispose of, and convey and assure to the purchasers, any such lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments aforesaid, when the condition of the grant to them, or the will of the devisor, does not forbid it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act Establishing the University of North Carolina, 1789] Reference

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, by the name aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to bargain, sell, grant, demise, alien or dispose of, and convey and assure to the purchasers, any such lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments aforesaid, when the condition of the grant to them, or the will of the devisor, does not forbid it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Record of the Proceedings of the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at the Centennial Celebration of the Act of Incorporation: Being an Account of the Alumni Banquet and the Alumni Class Reunions, June 5, 1889] Reference

And whereas there have been at sundry times, by divers persons, gifts, grants, devises of houses, lands, tene - ments, goods, chattels, legacies, and conveyances, hereto - fore made, either to Harvard College in Cambridge, in New England, or to the president and fellows of Harvard College, or to the said college by some other description, under several charters, successively; it is declared, that all the said gifts, grants, devises, legacies, and convey - ances, are hereby forever confirmed unto the president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors in the capacity aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

And whereas there have been at sundry times, by divers persons, gifts, grants, devises of houses, lands, tene - ments, goods, chattels, legacies, and conveyances, here - tofore made, either to Harvard College in Cambridge, in New England, or to the president and fellows of Harvard College, or to the said college by some other description, under several charters, successively; it is declared, that all the said gifts, grants, devises, legacies, and convey - ances, are hereby forever confirmed unto the president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors in the capacity aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

And Avhereas there have been at sundry times, by divers persons, gifts, grants, devises of houses, lands, tene - ments, goods, chattels, legacies, and conveyances, here - tofore made, either to Harvard College in Cambridge, in New England, or to the president and fellows of Harvard College, or to the said college by some other description, under several charters, successively; it is declared, that all the said gifts, grants, devises, legacies, and convey - ances, are hereby forever confirmed unto the president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors in the capacity aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

And whereas there have been at sundry times, by divers persons, gifts, grants, devises of houses, lands, tene - ments, goods, chattels, legacies, and conveyances, here - tofore made, either to Harvard College in Cambridge, in New England, or to the president and fellows of Harvard College, or to the said college by some other description, under several charters, successively; it is declared, that all the said gifts, grants, devises, legacies, and convey - ances, are hereby forever confirmed unto the president and fellows of Ilarvard College, and to their successors in the capacity aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or gi'antors, devisor or devisors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

And whereas there have been at sundry times, by divers persons, gifts, grants, devises of houses, lands, tene - ments, goods, chattels, legacies, and conveyances, here - tofore made, either to Harvard College in Cambridge, in New England, or to the president and fellows of Harvard College, or to the said college by some other description, under several cliarters, successively; it is declared, that all the said gifts, grants, devises, legacies, and convey - ances, are hereby forever confirmed unto the president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors in the capacity aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors. in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

And whereas there have been at sundry times, by divers persons, gifts, grants, devises of houses, lands, tene - ments, goods, chattels, legacies, and conveyances, hereto - fore made, either to Harvard College in Cambridge, in New England, or to the president and fellows of Harvard College, or to the said college by some other description, under several charters, successively; it is declared, that All gifts, grants, aW the Said gifts, grants, devises, legacies, and convey - ances, are hereby forever confirmed unto the president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors in the capacity aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, by the name aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to bargain, sell, grant, alien, or dispose of and convey and assure to the purchaser or purchasers such lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments aforesaid, when the conditions of the grant to them, or the will of the devisor does not forbid it, and that the said Trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, shall be able and capable in law by the name aforesaid, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court within this State, and to do and perform all such acts and things as are incident to, or usually exercised by, bodies politic and corporate, not inconsistent with the law of this State, touching the object of their incorporation.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History] Reference