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residuary

[ri-zij-oo-er-ee] / rɪˈzɪdʒ uˌɛr i /




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My mother retained the other 50% as part of her residuary trust, which excluded me as a beneficiary.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025

The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut announced Wednesday it was named to receive the residuary estate of Peter Grayson Letz, who died last September.

From Washington Times • Jul. 2, 2014

Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

To his adopted son, Publisher Peter Llewellyn Davies, inspiration for Peter Pan, he left �6,000 and half the residuary estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether the residuary disturbances are of external origin, or are due to friction, or to some peculiarity of the fluid motion within the reservoir, has not been satisfactorily determined.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various




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