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(law) 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..
Use anti-lapse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anti-lapse means (law) 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..
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