{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-act-1833/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-act-1833/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/3-4/106",
  "legislation_title": "Inheritance Act 1833",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inheritance-act-1833",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Heir entitled under a will shall take as devisee, and a limitation to the grantor or his heirs shall create an estate by purchase.",
  "text": "When any land shall have been devised, by any testator who shall die after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, to the heir or to the person who shall be the heir of such testator, such heir shall be considered to have acquired the land as a devisee, and not by descent; and when any land shall have been limited, by any assurance executed after the said thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, to the person or to the heirs of the person who shall thereby have conveyed the same land, such person shall be considered to have acquired the same as a purchaser by virtue of such assurance, and shall not be considered to be entitled thereto as his former estate or part thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/3-4/106/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:49:26.007039+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}