REMAINDERMAN

Etymology

Noun

remainderman (plural remaindermen)

(legal) A person entitled to receive a remainder interest in any property.

(legal) A person entitled to the assets of a trust at the end of some specified period or after some event. For instance a man's will might put his assets into a trust with the income to go to his wife until she dies (being a life interest), at which time the capital (remainder interest) goes to their children. The children are remaindermen.

Source: Wiktionary


Re*main"der-man (- mân), n.; pl. Remainder-men (-mên). (Law)

Definition: One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

coffee icon