Vested
Vested , adjective
1.
Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
The vested priest.
2.
(Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
Collocations (2)
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