For example, if you name your daughter as the primary beneficiary on your life insurance policy and your son as the contingent beneficiary, your daughter receives the entire $100,000 if she is alive when you die, and your son receives nothing. If your daughter dies before you, your son receives the entire $100,000.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. n purtenance Appurtenance; pertinents; belongings; the inwards or intestines of an animal: especially applied to the pluck, or the heart, liver, and lungs. n Purtenance purâ²ten-ans that which pertains or belongs to: n Purtenance purâ²ten-ans (B.) the inwards or intestines of an animal.
dominance. 1. The condition or fact of being dominant: ascendance, ascendancy, domination, paramountcy, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, preponderancy, prepotency, supremacy. 2.