"I have given a judgment for the
residuary legatee under the will," said the Court, "put the costs upon the contestants, decided all questions relating to fees and other charges; and, in short, the estate in litigation has been settled, with all controversies, disputes, misunderstandings, and differences of opinion thereunto appertaining."
It may be said that it would tend to render the government of the Union too powerful, and to enable it to absorb those
residuary authorities, which it might be judged proper to leave with the States for local purposes.
The names of Candlish and Begg were frequent in these interviews, and occasionally the talk ran on the
Residuary Establishment and the doings of one Lee.
And then the three harpooneers were bidden to the feast, they being its
residuary legatees.
In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a NATIONAL one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several States a
residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.
"What," said the notary, "do you not intend making Mademoiselle Valentine de Villefort your
residuary legatee?"
All the rest he died possessed of, he bequeathed to Peggotty; whom he left
residuary legatee, and sole executrix of that his last will and testament.
"It can't be denied that undeserving people have been legatees, and even
residuary legatees.
Mortimer replies, that by special testamentary clause it would then go to the old servant above mentioned, passing over and excluding the son; also, that if the son had not been living, the same old servant would have been sole
residuary legatee.
Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole
residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
It is certain, however, that Cesarine, the
residuary legate of the old man, received from his estate only six hundred francs a year.
Therefore, Justice Baqar said, the court should avoid an expansive construction of a federal legislative power which rendered redundant or nugatory the legislative field, power and authority assigned to the provinces, either expressly or as
residuary, thus undermining provincial autonomy.