What does "anti-lapse" mean?

Of or relating to a statute that abrogates the common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.

Anti-lapse

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Adjective

1
Of or relating to a statute that abrogates the common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective. not-comparable

Etymology

From anti- + lapse.

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