Devolution The transfer of rights, powers, or an office (public or private) from one person or government to another.
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Devolution is the decentralisation of governmental power. The most recent examples of devolution are the setting up of the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
devolution
n. 1) the transfer of title to real property by the automatic operation of law. 2) n. the transfer of rights, powers or an office (public or private) from one person or government to another.
DEVOLUTION, eccl. law. The transfer, by forfeiture, of a right and power which a person has to another, on account of some act or negligence of the person who is vested with such right or power: for example, ...
Devolution
Definition - Noun
: the transfer (as of rights, powers, property, or responsibility) to another
Pronunciation"de-v&-'lü-sh&n, "dE- ...
The devolution of an inheritance in England is now regulated by the rules of descent, as altered by the Inheritance Act 1833, amended by the Law of Property Amendment Act 1859.
Before the mid-19th century, the principles governing the devolution of real property and personal property on an intestacy were quite different.
The Legislature has plenary power over the devolution of the title and the distribution of the intestate's property; and yet, presumably, the rules of descent and distribution are in accord with the intestate's intention, ...
Movements that work towards political secession may describe themselves as being autonomy, separatist, independence, self-determination, partition, devolution decentralization, sovereignty, self-governance or decolonization movements instead of, ...
 See also: State, Person, Court, Property, Case
  
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