Ademption

noun

1. The failure of certain property to be passed on by will because such property is no longer owned by the testator or because the testator nullified the legacy by some act subsequent to the making of the will.
2. In <em>law</em>, the revocation of a grant, donation, or the like; especially, the lapse of a legacy, by the testator's satisfying it by delivery or payment to the legatee before his death, or
3. by his otherwise dealing with the thing bequeathed so as to manifest an intent to revoke the bequest. See <internalXref urlencoded="adeem">adeem</internalXref>.
4. The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like.
5. In the law of <xref>wills</xref>, the determination of what happens when <xref>property</xref> left under a will is no longer in the <xref>testator</xref>'s estate when the <xref>testator</xref> dies.