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Ademption

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The extinction of a specific legacy by the testator's parting with the subject thereof during his life. Also applied to the payment of the testator during his life of a general legacy; but this is more properly known as "satisfaction."

9 Barb. (N. Y.) 35; 3 Duer (N. Y.) 477.

The term is not applied to devises.

108 N. Y. 535.

ADEO (Lat.) So; as. Adeo plene et integre, as fully and entirely.

10 Coke, 65.