Overplus
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
What is left beyond a certain amount; the residue; the remainder of a thing. The same as "surplus."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
What is left beyond a certain amount; the residue; the remainder of a thing. The same as surplus. The overplus may be certain or uncertain. It is certain, for example, when an estate is worth three thousand dollars, and the owner asserts it to be so in his will, and devises of the proceeds one thousand dollars to A, one thousand dollars to B, and the overplus to C, and in consequence of the deterioration of the estate, or from some other cause, it sells for less than three thousand dollars, each of the legatees, A, B, and C, shall take one-third. The overplus is uncertain where, for example, a testator does not know the value of his estate and gives various legacies, and the overplus to another legatee: the latter will be entitled only to what may he left; 18 Ves. 4GG. See Residue; Surplus.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
What is left beyond a certain amount; the residue; the remainder of a thing.