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Residuary legatee
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Residuary legateeHe to whom the residuum of the estate is devised or bequeathed by will.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
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Resiance
A man's residence or permanent abode. Such a man is called a resiant.
Residence
The place of one's domicil. There is a difference between a man's residence and his domicil. He may have his domicil in Philadelphia, and still he may have a residence in New York; for although a man can have but one domicil, he may have several residences. A residence is generally tran-sient in its nature, it becomes a domicil when it is taken up animo manendi.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Resident alien
Applies to non-U.S. citizens currently residing in the United States. The term is applied in three different manners; please see Permanent Resident, Conditional Resident, and Returning Resident
Residuary legacy
That which is of the remainder of an estate after the payment of all the debts and other legacies.
Residue
That which remains of something after taking away a part of it; as, the residue of an estate, which is what has not been particularly devised by will.
Resignation
The act of an officer by which he declines his office, and renounces the further right to use it. It differs from abdication.
Resignee
One in favor of whom a resignation is made.
Resistence
The opposition of force to force.
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Resiance
A man's residence or permanent abode. Such a man is called a resiant.
Residence
The place of one's domicil. There is a difference between a man's residence and his domicil. He may have his domicil in Philadelphia, and still he may have a residence in New York; for although a man can have but one domicil, he may have several residences. A residence is generally tran-sient in its nature, it becomes a domicil when it is taken up animo manendi.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Resident alien
Applies to non-U.S. citizens currently residing in the United States. The term is applied in three different manners; please see Permanent Resident, Conditional Resident, and Returning Resident
Residuary legacy
That which is of the remainder of an estate after the payment of all the debts and other legacies.
Residuary legatee
Residue
That which remains of something after taking away a part of it; as, the residue of an estate, which is what has not been particularly devised by will.
Resignation
The act of an officer by which he declines his office, and renounces the further right to use it. It differs from abdication.
Resignee
One in favor of whom a resignation is made.
Resistence
The opposition of force to force.
Resolution
1) A solemn judgment or decision of a court. This word is frequently used in this sense, in Coke and some of the more ancient reporters. It also signifies an agreement to a law or other thing adopted by a legislature or popular assembly. 2) Civil law. The act by which a contract which existed and was good, is rendered null.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Resiance
A man's residence or permanent abode. Such a man is called a resiant.
Residence
The place of one's domicil. There is a difference between a man's residence and his domicil. He may have his domicil in Philadelphia, and still he may have a residence in New York; for although a man can have but one domicil, he may have several residences. A residence is generally tran-sient in its nature, it becomes a domicil when it is taken up animo manendi.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Resident alien
Applies to non-U.S. citizens currently residing in the United States. The term is applied in three different manners; please see Permanent Resident, Conditional Resident, and Returning Resident
Residuary legacy
That which is of the remainder of an estate after the payment of all the debts and other legacies.
Residue
That which remains of something after taking away a part of it; as, the residue of an estate, which is what has not been particularly devised by will.
Resignation
The act of an officer by which he declines his office, and renounces the further right to use it. It differs from abdication.
Resignee
One in favor of whom a resignation is made.
Resistence
The opposition of force to force.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Resiance
A man's residence or permanent abode. Such a man is called a resiant.
Residence
The place of one's domicil. There is a difference between a man's residence and his domicil. He may have his domicil in Philadelphia, and still he may have a residence in New York; for although a man can have but one domicil, he may have several residences. A residence is generally tran-sient in its nature, it becomes a domicil when it is taken up animo manendi.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Resident alien
Applies to non-U.S. citizens currently residing in the United States. The term is applied in three different manners; please see Permanent Resident, Conditional Resident, and Returning Resident
Residuary legacy
That which is of the remainder of an estate after the payment of all the debts and other legacies.
Residuary legatee
Residue
That which remains of something after taking away a part of it; as, the residue of an estate, which is what has not been particularly devised by will.
Resignation
The act of an officer by which he declines his office, and renounces the further right to use it. It differs from abdication.
Resignee
One in favor of whom a resignation is made.
Resistence
The opposition of force to force.
Resolution
1) A solemn judgment or decision of a court. This word is frequently used in this sense, in Coke and some of the more ancient reporters. It also signifies an agreement to a law or other thing adopted by a legislature or popular assembly. 2) Civil law. The act by which a contract which existed and was good, is rendered null.
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