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remainderships

remainderships is the plural of remaindership.

Meaning of 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

Questions about remainderships

What is remainderships the plural of?
Remainderships is the plural of remaindership.

Words near remainderships in the dictionary

  1. remainderlessness
  2. remainderman
  3. remaindermen
  4. remainders
  5. remaindership
  6. remainderships
  7. remaine
  8. remained
  9. remained to be seen
  10. remainedst
  11. remainee

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