Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The inheritor of a legacy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One to whom a legacy is bequeathed; in the civil law, and as sometimes loosely used in both Great Britain and the United States, one to whom property, real or personal, is given by will.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law one who receives a
legacy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jellicoe aforesaid to be the executor of this my will jointly with the principal beneficiary and residuary legatee that is to say with the aforesaid Godfrey Bellingham if the conditions set forth hereinbefore in clause 2 shall be duly carried out but with the aforesaid George
The Eye of Osiris 1902
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a partiary legatee, that is, of a legatee of a certain specified portion of the estate under the kind of bequest called participation, so that the stipulations which had been usual between an heir and a partiary legatee were now entered into by the heir and transferee, in order to secure a rateable division of the gains and losses arising out of the inheritance.
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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She underlined her backing in a will, leaving everything in trust to her two daughters, with the school as her residual legatee.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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The legatee of a proud and influential old New Hampshire family (Republicans initially), Kuster built a superb organization in the House race, and both she and the president want to keep it intact -- not only for any (unlikely) primary challenge, but to give the Obama a chance to win the state again the fall of 2012.
Obama Tends To New Hampshire With Eye On 2012 Howard Fineman 2010
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_It is my solemn duty to inform you that as agents of the executors of the will of a certain party, now deceased, and after exhaustive enquiries undertaken with the authority of the said executors, we have positively identified you as legatee under the testament of the said defunct, whose identity, however, we must for the moment withhold.
The Devil's Bedpost 2010
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The legatee of a proud and influential old New Hampshire family (Republicans initially), Kuster built a superb organization in the House race, and both she and the president want to keep it intact -- not only for any (unlikely) primary challenge, but to give the Obama a chance to win the state again the fall of 2012.
Obama Tends To New Hampshire With Eye On 2012 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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She underlined her backing in a will, leaving everything in trust to her two daughters, with the school as her residual legatee.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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He was informed that he had just become the probable legatee to half a million credits.
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-- "Zionism (is) the moral legatee of the victims of the Holocaust .... the most pervasive and insidious of the" Zionist myths; in fact, Zionists, like future prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, openly colluded with the Nazis for their own purposes - to use persecution as justification for a future Zionist state and more.
Jews Against Zionism 2009
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-- "Zionism (is) the moral legatee of the victims of the Holocaust .... the most pervasive and insidious of the" Zionist myths; in fact, Zionists, like future prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, openly colluded with the Nazis for their own purposes - to use persecution as justification for a future Zionist state and more.
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