Devise vs. Forgery — What's the Difference?

To form, plan, or arrange in the mind; design or contrive

Forgery is a white-collar crime that generally refers to the false making or material alteration of a legal instrument with the specific intent to defraud anyone (other than themself). Tampering with a certain legal instrument may be forbidden by law in some jurisdictions but such an offense is not related to forgery unless the tampered legal instrument was actually used in the course of the crime to defraud another person or entity.

(Law) To transmit or give (real property) by will.

The act of forging something, especially the unlawful act of counterfeiting a document or object for the purposes of fraud or deception.

(Archaic) To suppose; imagine.

Something that has been forged, especially a document that has been copied or remade to look like the original.

The act of transmitting or giving real property by will.

The act of forging metal into shape.

The property or lands so transmitted or given.

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.

A will or clause in a will transmitting or giving real property.

That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.

(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).

(archaic) An invention, creation.

(transitive) To leave (property) in a will.

The act of forging metal into shape.

To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.

To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.

That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.

(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.

A copy that is represented as the original

The act of leaving real property in a will.

Criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

Such a will, or a clause in such a will.

The real property left in such a will.

Design, devising.

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.

To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

To say; to relate; to describe.

To imagine; to guess.

To give by will; - used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.

To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; - sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.

Property devised, or given by will.

Device. See Device.

A will disposing of real property

(law) a gift of real property by will

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort;

Give by will, especially real property