In the secret sittings of the Committee Madier de Montjau, that firm and generous heart, De Flotte, brave and thoughtful, a fighting philosopher of the Devolution, Carnot, accurate, cold, tranquil, immovable, Jules Favre, eloquent, courageous, admirable through his simplicity and his strength, inexhaustible in resources as in sarcasms, doubled, by combining them, the diverse powers of their minds.

The devolution of the property depended on the burial clauseclause two; but the burial arrangements would ordinarily be decided by the executor, who happened to be Mr. Jellicoe.

The upward drive of the élan vital constitutes what may properly be known as evolution, the declining fall the process of devolution or degeneration.

Deterioration N. deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession &c 287; retrogradation &c 283 [Obs.]; decrease &c 36. degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation, depravement; devolution; depravity &c 945; demoralization, retrogression; masochism.

Transfer N. transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation^; demise, limitation; conveyancing^; transmission &c (transference) 270; enfeoffment^, bargain and sale, lease and release; exchange &c (interchange) 148; barter &c 794; substitution &c 147. succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution.

Already there are signs that even celestial physics and mathematics will refuse to endorse as final so revolting a scheme of material evolution and devolution, ending only in universal death.

The devolution of the presidential office in case of the president's death has also been made the subject of legislative change and amendment.

The devolution of the whole actual business and drudgery of the inn upon the poor gudewife was very common among the Scottish bonifaces.

So long as the State uses the proceeds of the inheritances in order to liquidate debts and other outgoings, which would have to be met otherwise, the devolution of such inheritances on the State is directly beneficial to all members of the State, because they have to pay less taxes.

His account of the origin and devolution of the famous treasures will invest them with a new interest in the happy days when they shall again be visible.

"Killed, my lord," was the instantanteous reply of a servant who knew the devolution of a courtesy title.

But I noticed that, although Ireland was expressly excepted from their resolution, most of them talked of little else, and I fancy that but for Dublin we should not have heard much of devolution.

Under these conditions the ruler, the governing class (its power grew with this devolution), the dominant population of the state, and the state itself all grew more fanatically Moslem.

Macedonia and Albania were obedient only to their local beys, and so far had gone the devolution of Serbia and Bosnia to Janissary aghas, feudal beys, and the Beylerbey of Rumili, that these provinces hardly concerned themselves more with the capital.

The substitution of national forces for mercenary praetorians: the substitution of direct imperial government of the provinces for devolution to seigneurs, tribal chiefs, and irresponsible officers: the substitution of direct collection for tax-farming: and the substitution of administration by bureaucrats for administration by household officersthese, the chief reforms carried through under Mahmud, were all anti-Byzantine.

Wills and administration; a discussion of the devolution of a decedent's estate and the procedure for the distribution thereof, for Virginia and West Virginia.

Wills and administration; a discussion of the devolution of a decedent's estate and the procedure for the distribution thereof, for Virginia and West Virginia.

Philip V. had never admitted that his renunciation of the crown of France was seriously binding upon him; he had seen, by the precedent of the war of devolution, how a powerful sovereign may make sport of such acts; his Italian minister, Alberoni, an able and crafty man, who had set the crown of Spain upon the head of Elizabeth Farnese, and had continued to rule her, cautiously egged on his master into hostilities against France.

Disintegratively it becomes devolution.