Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, one who has an estate after a particular estate is determined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See
remainder , n., 3.
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- noun law One to whom an
estate in aremainder isdevised .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the other hand, the remainder-man would have no right to meddle with the property while the tenant-for-life was in possession; and it would be rare, that all those interested could agree to unite in efforts to increase the general value of the estate, by such improvements.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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If the boy were out of the way, considerable sums might be raised by his lordship by the sale of reversions, in conjunction with the remainder-man in tail, who would in that case have been Lord Altham's needy brother
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous
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Green Estate as remainder-man under his will of a trust fund established for
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While the noble and the learned were comparing eyes to burning-glasses, and tears to terrestrial globes, coyness to an enthymeme, absence to a pair of compasses, and an unrequited passion to the fortieth remainder-man in an entail, Juliet leaning from the balcony, and Miranda smiling over the chess-board, sent home many spectators, as kind and simple-hearted as the master and mistress of Fletcher's Ralpho, to cry themselves to sleep.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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At the time of the release, the remainder-man in tail in that case could claim no forfeiture, for none had then been incurred: then 'his release could not have the effect to bar the right of claiming the forfeiture; for a release does not bar a mere possibility, Shep.
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Saltern v. iat - be fufficient to bar the remainder-man, tern, 2 Atk. 376.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ... William Peere Williams 1793
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Equity aids a defectiTe execution of a power, if for a valuable consideration; and this against a remainder-man, or one not claiming under the power.
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