Definition
"Tionary" is not a recognized legal term. The source material provided appears to be a truncated fragment of the word "SUBSTITUTIONARY" (or "substitutional"), cut off mid-entry. The fragment reads: "A bequest to such of the children of A. as shall be living at the testator's de—" indicating the original Black's Law Dictionary entry was for SUBSTITUTIONARY GIFT or SUBSTITUTIONARY BEQUEST, not a standalone term called "tionary."
No legal definition exists for "tionary" as an independent term.
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Why It Matters in Research
Researchers encountering this entry should be aware that corrupted or truncated text is a known hazard in digitized historical legal dictionaries. Optical character recognition (OCR) errors, damaged source pages, and indexing artifacts can produce apparent headwords that are in fact fragments of longer entries. If you arrived here seeking a definition, the intended term is almost certainly SUBSTITUTIONARY BEQUEST or SUBSTITUTIONARY GIFT — the complete Black's Law Dictionary entry addresses gifts in wills where a class member's share passes to that member's issue upon death before the distribution period, substituting descendants for the original beneficiary.
When searching digitized historical dictionaries in the Law Mind corpus, a truncated headword of this kind is a signal to search the surrounding alphabetical range for the complete entry rather than treating the fragment as a discrete term.
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Historical Dictionary Support
Black's Law Dictionary contains no entry for "tionary." The fragment in the source material is the tail end of the word "substitutionary" and the opening lines of the full entry for that term. The substantive content — addressing testamentary gifts to a class with substitution clauses in favor of issue — belongs entirely to the SUBSTITUTIONARY BEQUEST entry.
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