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

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

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

In his faith in the residuary wisdom and virtue of the mass of men, he is more like Jefferson than any of his Revolutionary compeers.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell