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

The other half of the residuary estate, in addition to �30,000 and the royalties from all his works except Peter Pan, he left to Lady Cynthia Asquith, his secretary and longtime friend.

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

Under the federal form of government, with its delegation of all residuary powers to the several states, the United States have no system of recording deaths, births and marriages.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various