devolution-devolution: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is devolution?

  • Transfert, transmission d'un bien, d'un droit, qui se fait d'une personne à une autre.(Se dit particulièrement en parlant de la transmission successorale.)

    Transfer, transmission of property or a right, from one person to another. (Said specifically when talking about inheritance.)

  • Droit qui, dans certains pays, donnait la succession aux seuls enfants nés d'un premier mariage.

    A law which, in some countries, gave the inheritance only to the children born of a first marriage.

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