Match up the terminology in the left column to the definitions in the right column.
1. Residue
2. Abatement
3. Ademption
4. General legacies
5. Demonstrative legacies
6. Specific legacies
7. Devises
8. Satisfaction
9. Anti-lapse
10. Intestate succession
a. Happens when property left to a beneficiary is disposed of before the testator’s death.
b. Means handed down from an ancestor.
c. All remaining property after the testator has given all of his or her specifically named bequests and devises.
d. Are the dispositions of specific items of a personal property in a will.
e. Are gifts of real property.
f. Occurs when the testator gives the gift to the beneficiary before the testator dies.
g. Are the disposition of sums of money that specifically outline where the money is to come from.
h. Prevents the gift from lapsing by substituting the beneficiary’s issue for the beneficiary
i. Process by which the property of a person who dies without a valid will is distributed.
j. Are the disposition of sums of money without specifying the source from which the funds must come.
1. a. Happens when property left to a beneficiary is disposed of before the testator’s death.
2. b. Means handed down from an ancestor.
3. c. All remaining property after the testator has given all of his or her specifically named bequests and devises.
4. j. Are the disposition of sums of money without specifying the source from which the funds must come.
5. g. Are the disposition of sums of money that specifically outline where the money is to come from.
6. d. Are the dispositions of specific items of a personal property in a will.
7. e. Are gifts of real property.
8. f. Occurs when the testator gives the gift to the beneficiary before the testator dies.
9. h. Prevents the gift from lapsing by substituting the beneficiary’s issue for the beneficiary
10. i. Process by which the property of a person who dies without a valid will is distributed.
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