DEVOLVE

To pa or be transferred from one person to another; to fall on, or accrue to, one person as the succe or of anotller; as, a title, right, office, liability. The term is said to be peculiarly appropriate to the pa ing of an estate from a person dying to a person living. Parr v. Parr, 1 l\1ylne & K. 648'; Babcock v. Maxwell, 29 Mont. 31, 74 Pac. 64. See DEVOLUTJ: ON. [s. 371]