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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

This week President Dennett announced those gifts for the first time, revealed that to late they totaled $2,900,000, that when Hopkins died in June he had made his residuary legatee.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This will appoints you, Don Franco, residuary legatee, in terms attrociously insulting to both the wife and the son of the testator.

From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Fogazzaro, Antonio




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