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devisable, a.|dɪˈvaɪzəb(ə)l|
Also 6 devysable, diuisable, 6–9 deviseable.
[a. OF. devisable, that can be divided; in AF. that can be assigned by will; f. deviser to devise.]
1. Law. That can be devised or bequeathed, as real property: see devise v. 4.
[1292Britton iii. xx. §7 Si..le tenement soit devisable par usage et custume del lu, sicum est de burgages.] 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 10 §1 By the common lawes..landes, tenementes and hereditamentes, be not diuisable by testamente. 1590Swinburne Testaments 91 Whether corne growing on lande morgaged, bee deuiseable. 1628Coke On Litt. 322 Tenements deuisable to another for life, or for yeares. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 369 The Shares in the capital Stock shall be transferrable and devisable. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) I. 405 Uses were devisable, although at that time lands were not. 1847Tait's Mag. XIV. 192 Genius and talent are not devisable possessions. 1875Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 422 Land held in emphyteusis was alienable, devisable, descendible by intestacy.
2. That can be devised or contrived; contrivable.
1649Sadler Rights of Kingdom 189 (T.) If there be no records, there is scarce devisable a legal traverse or a trial. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1686 II. 36 Exceptions or cavils devisable by curious or captious wits. 1795Jemima II. 39 Every devisable method for obtaining her. 1889Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Thro' Long Night ii. ix, Any folly devisable by man.
†3. Of deceitful contrivance, of feigned nature.
1659Milton Civ. Power Wks. 1848 II. 547 The more they will..find how false and deviseable that common saying is, which is so much relied upon. |