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

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

The residuary legatee would only come in for a few hundreds or so.

From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant