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residuary

[ri-zij-oo-er-ee] / rɪˈzɪdʒ uˌɛr i /




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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 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

Even when courts for all ordinary causes had been established, a reserve of Chancery. residuary justice remained with the king.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various




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