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Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate. Ayliffe. Residuary clause , that part of the testator's will in which the residue of his estate is disposed of.

Additional info about word: RESIDUARY

Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate. Ayliffe. Residuary clause , that part of the testator's will in which the residue of his estate is disposed of. -- Residuary devise , the person to whom the residue of real estate is devised by a will. -- Residuary legatee , the person to whom the residue of personal estate is bequeathed.

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• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• ESTATE
  1. To establish. Beau. & Fl. 2. Tom settle as a fortune. Shak. 3. To endow with an estate. Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory. Tennyson.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• MATTER
  1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• DISPOSED
  1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer.
• ADVANTAGE
  1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DISPOSINGLY
  In a manner to dispose.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.
• REMAIN
  re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not
• RESIDUE
  That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies. (more info) that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• FOREDISPOSE
  To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.
• INTESTATE
  1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
• BLANKET CLAUSE
  A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.
• PREINDISPOSE
  To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.