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.
Definitions for purtenance Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word purtenance. Webster Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Purtenance (noun) that which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal. Origin: [Abbrev. fr. appurtenance.]
(n'trÄ-Ént) A substance that provides nourishment for growth or metabolism. Plants absorb nutrients mainly from the soil in the form of minerals and other inorganic compounds, and animals obtain nutrients from ingested foods.