devolve

devolve (http://definr.com/devolve)

     v 1: pass on or delegate to another; "The representative devolved
          his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
     2: be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land
        returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir
        that everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: fall, return,
         pass]