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

Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ann Woodward, 43, and her two sons, William III, 15, and James, 11, each get the income from a third of the residuary estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bequest had created some little comment at the time, because thereby the only son of the testator, who was named in the will as residuary legatee, was reported to have inherited little or nothing.

From A Master Hand The Story of a Crime by Dallas, Richard