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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Vest·ed a.
 1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.  “The vested priest.”
 2. Law 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 praesenti, 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.
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