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Devolve

To pass or be transferred from one person to another; to fall on, or accrue to, one person as the successor of an-other; as, a title, rights office, liability. The term is said to be pecullarly appropriate to the passing of an estate from a persou dying to a person living. Parr v. Parr, 1 Mylne

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)