WordNet
v. be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the electin"; "Your grade will depends on your homework" [syn: depend on, depend upon, ride, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon]
Usage examples of "devolve on".
Upon his certification of such action in the Log, his rank of Captain shall be suspended and command shall devolve on the next-ranking line officer.
Steinberg had so worded her will that, in the event of her nephew dying before her, her fortune would devolve on you.
That the estate belonging to the sister's family might not devolve on the brother's, they gave half the brother's estate to the sister for her dowry.
As in many such matters, as in cleaning and repairing streets, Gorean responsibility tends to devolve on the individual and not on the polity.
In Sota, with no male heir, the crown could devolve on one of them.
The old Pyncheon property, together with the great estate acquired by the young man's father, would devolve on whom?
Thus it is, when the moral restraints of religion and tradition, hierarchy and precedent, are removed, the power to suspend or unleash catastrophic events does not devolve on the impersonal benevolence of the masses but falls into the hands of men who are isolated by the very totality of their evil natures.
Mostly this can be just anybody who gets saddled with the job, but the final decisions devolve on the man who chairs the Assembly, meaning Daddy.