Vest"ed (?), a.
1.
Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
"The
vested priest."
Milton.
2. Law
Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
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. Kent.
© Webster 1913.