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Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #352
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:09:04 EST
In a message dated 12/31/2002 7:01:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Subject: Legalize Help
>
> Need Help. I have been reading wills. What does resid. legatee mean?
>
> Lorine Taylor
>
Lorine--
I use "A TO ZAX - A comprehensive Dictionary for Genealogists & Historians"
by Barbara Jean Evans to decipher some of the old phrases. It has the
following definition for residuary legatee:
A person who receives an inheritance of an estate's residue or remainder.
The phrase often used in a will is: "the remainder I give to ..."
I hope that helps.
-- Dan Durham
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