Parting gifts?

Usage examples of bequests.

This did not, however, include certain important sums of money, not reckoned in the estate and already tied up in sacks in the vaults of the Capitol, which had been set aside as particular bequests to confederate kings, to senators and knights, to his soldiers, and to the citizens of Rome.

I make these bequests to Winston Harte as a gesture of my love, and because of his love, devotion, and uncommon loyalty to me over the years and because of his marriage to my granddaughter Emily, for the benefit of them both and any offsprings of their marriage.