anti-lapse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to a statute that abrogates the common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.

Word forms

anti-lapse

Etymology

From anti- + lapse.

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