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legatee
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Word definitions for legatee in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legatee \Leg`a*tee"\ (l[e^]g`[.a]*t[=e]"), n. [See Legacy .] (Law) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Celsus, however, twice refers to the beneficiary as a legatee . ▪ Here too the legatee would be asked to give a guarantee that he would make over the property as requested. ▪ His niece, who is a little unbalanced, took this very ...
Usage examples of legatee.
Dimon of the city of New York made and executed a will, choosing as legatee and executrix a Mrs.
But the names of the legatee, executrix, testator, names of witnesses and their addresses were completely obliterated.
These two friends, who were nearly of the same age, had deposited their wills in the hands of the same attorney, and each had made the other his residuary legatee.
I found that dying men with good clothes were as carefully watched over by sets of fellows who constituted themselves their residuary legatees as if they were men of fortune dying in the midst of a circle of expectant nephews and nieces.
And then the three harpooneers were bidden to the feast, they being its residuary legatees.
These I need not enumerate here, especially as I have reserved them as his residuary legatee and, in the event of my death, they will pass to you under my will.
Francis Barber, his faithful servant and residuary legatee, offered this memorial of tenderness to Mrs.
Joseph, being apparently unmarried, made his nephew, Joseph of Scituate, his residuary legatee, and his property mostly came over to the Colony.
Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
Why he selected the United States as his residuary legatee has long been, and will continue to be, the subject of curious inquiry.
She had worked hard at various unremunerative employments since the death of her paralysed father early in the war, and when her Aunt Marian died, leaving her sole legatee, she gave away the clothes she had worn till she hated the sight of them, shook the dust of the latest boarding-house off her feet and moved in the luxurious up-to-date Parade Hotel at Sunhaven, prepared to enjoy as much of her life as remained to her.
These two friends, who were nearly of the same age, had deposited their wills in the hands of the same attorney, and each had made the other his residuary legatee.
And then the three harpooneers were bidden to the feast, they being its residuary legatees.
I found that dying men with good clothes were as carefully watched over by sets of fellows who constituted themselves their residuary legatees as if they were men of fortune dying in the midst of a circle of expectant nephews and nieces.
If a telegram to say that we had become legatees had arrived from, St.