Definition of Ademptions

1. ademption [n] - See also: ademption

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ademptions

adelomorphous
adelopod
adelopods
adelphia
adelphic
adelphogamy
adelphophagy
adelphopoiesis
adelphous
adelphy
adempt
adempted
adempting
ademption
ademptions (current term)
adempts
aden-
aden fever
adenalgia
adendric
adendritic
adenectomies
adenectomy
adenectopia
adenemphraxis
adeniform
adenine
adenine arabinoside
adenine deaminase

Literary usage of Ademptions

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

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"... ratifying and confirming the will and all the devises and bequests therein contained, will not set up the legacy.1 6. ademptions of General Legacies to ..."

2. Revised Laws of the State of California: In Four Codes : Political, Civil by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, Charles Lindley (1871)
"Advancements, when ademptions. SEC. 1317. A will is to be construed according to the Testator's intention of the testator. Where his intention cannot ..."

3. The Civil Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1874)
"Advancements or gifts are not to be taken Advance- as ademptions of general legacies, unless such inten- w,non . . ments, ..."

4. The American Probate Reports: Containing Recent Cases of General Value (1881)
"they are to be regarded as ademptions of legacies, residuary as well as pecuniary, without further evidence, as the terms in which they were written, ..."

5. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1881)
"We conclude then, that so far as papers of the first class are con cerned — ordinary receipts — they will or will not be regarded as ademptions of legacies ..."

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