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.]
/preÂ·curÂ·sor/ (preÂ´kur-ser) something that precedes. In biological processes, a substance from which another, usually more active or mature, substance is formed. In clinical medicine, a sign or symptom that heralds another.precurÂ´sory.he storm increase, the flashes succeeded one another more rapidly, the thunder began to growl, and the wind, the precursor of a hurricane, whistled in the plumes and the hair of the horsemen.