Vēst'ed, p. a.

p. a. Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights.

Vested legacy (Law), a legacy the right to which commences in presenti, and does not depend on a contingency; as a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of age. This is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. Blackstone. — Vested remainder, an estate invariably fixed, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent. Blackstone. Kent.