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Ademption [fr. adimo, Lat.], revocation; a taking away of a specific legacy, i.e., if a testator, after having given a legacy of this nature by his will, alienate the subject of it during his life, it is an ademption and the legacy is gone. As to charges on specific legacies of personal estate, see s. 35 of the Administration of Estates Act, 1925. See Theobald on Wills. The term is also used to denote the satisfaction of a legacy to a child by the testator subsequently giving the child a portion on his or her marriage. See SATISFACTION.

Means the destruction or extinction of a legacy or bequest by reason of a bequeathed asset's ceasing to be part of the estate at the time of the testator's death; a beneficiary's forfeiture of a legacy or bequest that is no longer operative. Also termed extinguishment of legacy, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.39