residuary
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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
Last February, four days after making a new will bequeathing her residuary estate to Harvard University to "further journalism," his widow, Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, followed him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last week when the will of Cornelius' widow, Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt, was probated, liveliest news was that she had left her residuary estate to her onetime estranged second son, Brigadier General Cornelius III.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This she had not done, but she had made Rupert her residuary legatee, leaving to him most of her jewels.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott