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

Drew University, in addition to its 17½% of the residuary, received the ugly brick house outright and that is one of the most valuable pieces in the whole estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Resid′uary, pertaining to the residue: receiving the remainder, as residuary estate.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various