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Definition of Ademption
1. n. The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like.
Definition of Ademption
1. Noun. (legal) In the law of wills, the determination of what happens when property left under a will is no longer in the testator's estate when the testator dies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ademption
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ademption
Literary usage of Ademption
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1899)
"The distinction between ademption and satisfaction lies in this: m ademption ...
Consequently in that case the law uses the word 'ademption,' because the ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Wills: Embracing Execution, Interpretation and by John E. Alexander (1918)
"ademption by act of the testator: Delivery by testator to legatee. § 717.
ademption by loss or destruction of property specifically bequeathed. § 718. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"OF THE ademption OF LEGACIES. If a gift to one legatee in the earlier part of a
will be inconsistent ademption by in- with A subsequent gift to another ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"tinction between satisfaction and ademption lies in this : in the former, the
bequest can only ... The term satisfaction is also used to include ademption, ..."
5. The Law of Wills by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1866)
"But in regard to general legacies, " intention is of the very essence of ademption."
SECTION XIII. THE ademption OF GENERAL LEGACIES, AND THOSE GIVEN AS ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Henry Maddock, Thomas Huntington (1827)
"a renewal has been held not to be an ademption, it not being a specific Legacy,
but an enumeration of the particulars of his Personal Estate (/>). ..."
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