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ademption

noun/əˈdɛmpʃən/

C2CEFR level
97/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The failure of a specific legacy because its subject matter no longer forms part of the testator's estate at death.

The gift of 'my car' failed by ademption because the testator had sold the vehicle before dying.

Topic: Property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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