anti-lapse
English
adj
Definitions
- (legal) 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.
Etymology
Prefix from English lapse.
Origin
English
lapse
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hyperlapse English
- interlapse English
- lapsation English
- lapse English
- lapser English
- lapseth English
- lapsible English
- time-lapse English
- laps Middle French