Category:Vested

Vest"ed, a.

1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. "the vested priest." Milton.

2. (law)

Defn: not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested Rights; vested interests. Vested legacy (law), a legacy the right to Which commences in præsenti, and does not depend on a contingency; As, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of Age is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, His representative shall receive it. Blackstone. -- vested remainder (law), an estate settled, to remain to a Determined person, after the particular estate is spent. Blackstone. Kent.