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

When Mr. Bagley died in 1932, Mr. Brown was left residuary legatee of his estate, said to have amounted to not more than $50.000.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

As before mentioned, Harvard College was his residuary legatee, and the property so bequeathed founded the Rumford Professorship in that institution.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William