Lexic.us

Definition of Beneficiary

1. Adjective. Having or arising from a benefice. "A beneficiary baron"

2. Noun. The recipient of funds or other benefits.

3. Noun. The semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause.

Definition of Beneficiary

1. a. Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.

2. n. A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.

Definition of Beneficiary

1. Noun. One who benefits or receives an advantage. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) One who benefits from the distribution, especially of an estate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beneficiary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beneficiary

benefacts benefic benefice beneficed beneficence beneficences beneficent beneficential beneficently benefices

beneficial beneficial owner beneficially beneficialness beneficiaries beneficiary (current term) beneficiate beneficiated beneficiates beneficiating

beneficiation beneficiations beneficient beneficing beneficium ordinis seu excussionis benefit benefit album benefit concert benefit of clergy benefit of the doubt

Literary usage of Beneficiary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"This common practice of thus gratuitously designating a beneficiary raises ... Under what conditions does the beneficiary's interest become a vested right ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"In the application and policy the insured reserved the right to change the beneficiary, known as the right of revocation. ..."

3. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
"RIGHTS ABSOLUTELY VESTED—Where the title vests in the beneficiary without any condition of defeasance, the rights of the beneficiary become absolute, ..."

4. Insurance: Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Harry James Loman (1921)
"Reserving the right to change the beneficiary.—This is the method most commonly used, since the insured is certain to retain complete control of his ..."

5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1903)
"Such terms in a policy, therefore, provide for a "divestiture" of the vested interest of the primary beneficiary, and create a contingent interest in the ..."

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