vested

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Vest"ed   (?), a.
1. Clothed; robed; wearing
vestments. "The vested priest."
Milton.
 2. (Law)
Not in a
state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
 Vested legacy (Law), a legacy the right to which commences in pr&aelig;senti, and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he
attains to twenty-one years of age
is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. Blackstone. -- Vested remainder (Law), an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent. Blackstone.
Kent.

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