remaindership

Noun

remaindership (plural remainderships)

1. The right to inherit land or title when the current possessor of that land or title dies without an heir.
   • His grace made a surrender to the crown, in 1706, of the titles conferred upon his father, and obtained a new grant of those honors, dated 17th of June, 1706, extending the remaindership to his heirs male or female, descended from William, first Earl of Queensberry, leaving the marquesate and...1826, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, page 262
   • His brother, who succeeded him, in default of male issue, had been previously created Baron Howard, of Castle-Rising, Earl of Norwich, and Earl-Marshal of England, with remaindership to numerous branches of his family, and dying, in 1684, he was succeeded by his son Henry, who was a staunch...1841, William Carpenter, Peerage for the People, pages 548–549