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Definition:4. (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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"There were many insignificant sums to individuals, and a large number of public charities. The residue all went to Sir Henry."
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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There was still a residue of personal property as well as the land, but the whole was left to one person, and that person was—O possibilities! O expectations founded on the favor of "close" old gentlemen!
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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“I find myself growing faint, so I shall refer you to my will for my disposition of the residue. My servants will there find some tokens to remember me by; and there are a few charities which, I trust, my executors will see faithfully performed. [...]"
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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