adjective
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of, relating to, or constituting a residue; residual
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law entitled to the residue of an estate after payment of debts and distribution of specific gifts
Etymology
Origin of residuary
1720–30; < Latin residu ( um ) what is left over ( see residual) + -ary
Example Sentences
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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
Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It was an age rife with demon legends; legends of favors granted to mortals in return for a residuary mortgage on their souls; and all that sort of thing.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
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