remaindership

Etymology

From remainder + -ship.

remaindership means The right to inherit land or title when the current possessor of that land or title dies without an heir. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 81 out of 100.

noun

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 earldom of Queensberry, with the viscounty of Drumlanrig, and barony of Douglas, of Hawick and Tibbers, un”