Definition of "devisee" [dev•i•see]

• Law One to whom a devise is made. (noun)

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• "It must also be remembered, that a testator often directs that a devisee shall procure the royal license or an Act of Parliament for the change of name, in order to entitle him to the testator's property."
• "Fund of the Century Association, the third devisee, has assured the Attorneys that it will also consent thereto."
• "People who refuse to believe that the Central Banks of the World would be willing to trust part or most of their gold to the keeping of such a Bank overlook the fact that much of the reserves of the Central Banks has since the War been increasingly kept in foreign centres as earmarked gold or as what the Germans call devisee: foreign credits easily liquidated."