residuaryadj.n.

1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 173 The residuary seculars of the Testators undergo the weight of all public duties and assessements, by keeping in their hands the fee.

1701 2nd Pt. Cases High Court Chancery Table Testator wills that the quantity of the residuary Estate would be as his Executor voluntarily, and without Compulsion of Law should declare.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 266 'Tis enough if he be contented to lose the Legacy, or the residuary advantage of the estate left him by the deceased.

1743 Swinburne's Testaments (ed. 6) i. 40 The Testator devised the residuary Part of his Estate to two Executors.

1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 102 A residuary bequest..operates upon all the personal estate, of which a testator is possessed at the time of his death.

1859 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) II. 210 The labourer,..a mere bought instrument in the work of production, having no residuary interest in the work itself.

1933 Michigan Law Rev. 31 585 It has long been the weight of authority that a lapsed residuary bequest..is distributed according to the rules of intestacy.

1983 Oxf. Jrnl. Legal Stud. 3 445 The residuary estate of the deceased is defined as including both property the subject of a residuary disposition and property not effectively disposed of by the will.

2008 Lawyer (Nexis) 28 July 48 All the major residuary beneficiaries of the patient's will had indicated their consent.

1735 T. Dallowe tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chem. II. i. xxxi. 92 These residuary Decoctions [L. Residua decocta], with the Waters drawn off, are made use of a second time.

1751 J. Kirkpatrick Some Refl. on Putrefaction Dead Bodies 6 All the residuary Extrusions from the ingested Aliment of Animals,..contract a sudden and peculiar Aptitude for the Reorganization, Growth and Sustenance of others.

1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 97 The oils, ammoniac, and carbone appear to be formed from the residuary azote and carbone.

1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 197 The residuary gas being transferred into another tube.

1815 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 7) I. i. xiii. 386 Part of the carbonic acid also remains attached to the residuary alkali, and may be obtained from it on adding a stronger acid.

1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life 378 Mere residuary substances of a dry and fruitless life.

1908 U.S. Patent 887,188 1/2 The process of producing a non-friable road metal which consists in slowly cooling masses of initially molten furnace slag and utilizing the residuary heat in said masses to produce chunks of tenacious material through the action of water impinging thereon.

1991 Ship & Boat Internat. Apr. 11/1 The high residuary drag of a short fat planing hull can be felt as the engines struggle to force it over the hump.

1993 Starch 45 309 The residuary substance of heterogeneous hydrolysis of wheat starch..is an insoluble sediment.

1829 Trans. Geol. Soc. 127 The general dispersion of these enormous blocks..affords strong evidence, in addition to that supplied by the residuary patches and outliers of plastic clay, that these tertiary formations were once over nearly the whole surface of the chalk in the south of England.

1876 R. Pumpelly in R. Pumpelly et al. Iron Ores Missouri & Michigan i. i. 9 The more conspicuous instances of this kind among the pre-Silurian rocks are residuary occurrences of iron-ore.

1909 Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 18 39 The masses of this siliceous material, which is evidently a decomposed chert, occur imbedded in a red residuary clay exposed in the gutters by the roadside.

1922 C. C. Williams Design Masonry Struct. & Found. xiii. 432 Residual deposits: Residuary gravels, sands and clays, wacke, laterite, terra rosa, etc.

2005 Geobios 38 780/1 Owen erected the genus and type species T[heriosuchus] pusillus based on a specimen preserved on a single slab of ‘Beckles residuary marls’ from the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, England.

1837 Mag. Pop. Sci. 3 482 They teach us..to endeavour to account for ancient changes on the earth's surface, as much as possible by the operation of causes now in action, only having recourse to unknown causes for the explanation of residuary phenomena, which it is clear could not have been produced by existing forces.

1878 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 24 May 264/3 Any occult influence of the planets, or any residuary cause of rain, becomes thus more clearly perceptible.

1881 G. W. Royston-Pigott in Nature 29 Sept. 515/1 The haze observed in miniatures examined by high magnifying power is an invaluable indication of spherical residuary aberration.

1913 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 33 173 In science it is to residuary phenomena that we look for clues.

1792 W. Jones tr. Siraj al-Din Muhammad Sajawandi Comm. on Sirájiyyah 2 Then they proceed to the residuary heirs by relation, and they are all such as take what remains of the inheritance, after those who are entitled to shares; and, if there be only residuaries, they take the whole property.

1817 C. Lamb Let. 31 Aug. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 251 Of course you have heard of poor Mitchell's death, and that G. Dyer is one of Lord Stanhope's residuaries.

1873 Sc. Jurist 45 99/1 The instruction to sell was not for the benefit of residuaries, but to provide funds for other purposes of the testatrix.

1902 A. C. Mittra Case-noted Mahomedan Law xii. 201 The order of succession is the same as in the case of the residuaries by consanguinity, with this exception that a female is not entitled to succeed as a residuary ‘for special cause’.

1920 E. Gosse in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 47 He was the residuary of his own temperament.

2003 J. R. Bowen Islam, Law, & Equality in Indonesia iii. viii. 196 If there were children then the siblings could inherit as residuaries.

1742 T. Barnadiston Rep. Cases Chancery 395 There are subsequent Parts of his Will, wherein he disposes both of real and personal Estate, and therefore the residuary Clause shall be applicable to both.

1788 J. J. Powell Ess. Learning of Devises 523 The debt remained unextinguished, subject to go according to the residuary clause between the two executors.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 200 In the residuary clause, the testator had made use of the most expressive and comprehensive words.

1889 Harvard Law Rev. 3 51 A will gives general legacies followed by the usual residuary clause.

1932 Virginia Law Rev. 18 915 If there were no residuary clause, the property passed according to the laws of intestate succession.

1985 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 21 June b8 In the residuary clause, divide the property you haven't specifically mentioned in your will.

2008 Sunday Business Post (Ireland) (Nexis) 16 Mar. A will may contain only executor and residuary clauses, and still be valid.

1740 Clerk's Instructor Eccl. Courts 294 The said H.W. and A.W. his Wife, the Residuary Devisee and Legatee of the last Will and Testament of the said E.P. deceased.

a1794 Ld. Camden in Powell's Devises (1827) II. 45 Where the intention of a testator is to devise the residue exclusive of a part given away, the residuary devisee shall not take that part in any event.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xx. 154 Where a gift is to a charity of an estate, which is void, the estate will go to the residuary devisee.

1988 E. S. Green & N. Henderson Land Law (ed. 5) x. 67 In the case of a gift by will the property will normally go to the residuary devisee or legatee or to the person entitled on intestacy.

1670 H. More Let. 6 Aug. in Conway Lett. (1992) v. 304 Though the gentleman be dead, yett his Residuary Legatee, a cousin germaine of his, persists in the same purpose.

1743 Swinburne's Testaments (ed. 6) vi. 415 Where an Executor and residuary Legatee dies before Probate, his Executor shall have the Administration.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 858 He is in effect a residuary legatee since he is entitled to the whole estate after paying the testator's debts and legacies.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 12 If the son had not been living, the same old servant would have been sole residuary legatee.

1962 S. E. Finer Man on Horseback viii. 123 The Justice party..in a sense was the residuary legatee of the old Democrats.

1967 E. Rudinger Wills & Probate 11 The wife is probably the residuary legatee.

2001 A. Taylor Death's Own Door (2002) v. 41 As residuary legatee, I'm afraid you will be responsible for the estate duty.

1825 T. Jefferson Draft Declaration & Protest of Commonwealth of Virginia Dec. in Writings (1984) 482 These two sets of officers, each independent of the other, constitute thus a whole of government, for each State separately; the powers ascribed to the one, as specifically made federal, exercised over the whole, the residuary powers, retained to the other, exercisable exclusively over it's particular State.

1919 G. B. Shaw Let. in Irish Statesman 22 Nov. 536/2 The meaning of residuary powers and the importance of the Australian precedent in their bearing on the Irish national question.

1950 W. Theimer & P. Campbell Encycl. World Politics 163/2 In some federations..the powers of the federal government are named in the constitution and all other powers (the residuary powers) belong to the regions.

2004 Social Scientist 32 4 The residuary fiscal powers of the State governments were always constrained by the policies pursued by the Central Government.