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

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

It is the sleeping partner who draws the dividends which the firm produces, the residuary legatee who always claims his share in the estate.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.