adeem
/əˈdiːm/
verb
- To take back or revoke a gift or inheritance in a will, usually because the property no longer exists or has been given away before the person died.
- Courts sometimes decide whether a gift is adeemed based on the testator's intent.
- If the car was sold before the testator died, the gift of the car in the will is adeemed.
- The lawyer explained that the specific bequest of the painting would be adeemed because it was destroyed in a fire.
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