remaindership

From remainder +‎ -ship.

remaindership (plural remainderships)

1. The right to inherit land or title when the current possessor of that land or title dies without an heir.
   • 1826, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, page 262:

     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, untouched, and to descend according to the original patents of creation.

   • 1841, William Carpenter, Peerage for the People, pages 548–549:

     His brother, who succeeded him, in default of male issue, had been previously created Baron Howard, of Castle-Rising, Earl of Norwich, and Earl-Marshal of England, with remaindership to numerous branches of his family, and dying, in 1684, he was succeeded by his son Henry, who was a staunch Protestant.

   • 1869, George Hill, The Montgomery Manuscripts: (1603-1706), page 437:

     Sir William married Catherine, eldest daughter of Arthur Viscount Ranelagh, and was succeeded by his only surviving son, Sir Richard, 3rd baronet, who was elevated to the peerage 2nd July, 1681, as Baron Oxmantown and Viscount Rosse, with remaindership to the male issues of his great grandfather.

   • 1879, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores:

     And they may sell the wardship of the lands, and the maritages of the heirs, if they are not married, but they cannot alienate any part of the inheritance or they may offend as regards a remaindership.

   • 1892, The Spectator - Volume 69, page 709:

     Of course this raises the whole question of succession and remaindership. But would the limiting of remaindership to one generation simplify the transfer of land so very much? After all, what is chiefly wanted is easier and less expensive transfer.

   • 1976, Donald Moore, Wales in the eighteenth century, page 38:

     An entail had been created under the terms of the will of Thomas Vaughan in l759, and owing to failure of male heirs in later generations, the property passed successively to different kinsmen in remaindership.