Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Vested \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 pr[ae]senti, 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.