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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law One to whom an estate in a remainder is devised.

Etymologies

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From remainder and man.

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