The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like.
When a person makes a gift in a Will that cannot be made because: it no longer exists (ademption by extinction), or the person who wrote the Will gave the gift before they died (ademption by satisfaction).
Disposing of a gift (such as money) before the heir take possession of it- revoking a legacy.
This happens when someone is left something in a will, but the item no longer exists so cannot be bequeathed.
The lapse of a specific bequest of property in a will because the property is not in the testator's estate at the time of death.
The failure of a specific bequest because the bequest no longer exists.
The failure of a specific bequest of property to take effect because the property is no longer owned by the testator at the time of his death.
When property identified in a will cannot be given to the beneficiary because it no longer belonged to the deceased at the time of death. For example, the particular gift may have been destroyed, sold or given away between the time of the will and the time of death. Compare this with " abatement".
Disposal by a testator in his or her lifetime of a specific property bequeathed in his or her will so the bequest is revoked. (See testator)
Failure of a gift because the will-maker, by the time of death, no longer owns the property that the will-maker attempted to bequeath in the will.
Ademption is a term used in the law of wills to determine what happens when property bequested under a will is no longer in the testator's estate when the testator dies. For devises of specific items of property, the property is adeemed, and the gift fails. If, for example, the will bequeathed the testator's car to a specific person, but the testator owned no car at the time of his death, then the gift would have been adeemed.