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Legacies

Legacy \Leg"a*cy\ (l[e^]g"[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl. Legacies (-s[i^]z). [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf. OF. legat legacy. See Legate.]

  1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

  2. A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

    My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world.
    --Tyndale.

    He came and told his legacy.
    --Chapman.

    Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies.
    --Wharton.

    Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.

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legacies

n. (plural of legacy English)

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Legacies (Babylon 5)

"Legacies" is an episode from the first season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

Legacies (novel)

Legacies is the second volume in a series of Repairman Jack books written by American author F. Paul Wilson. The book was first published in 1998 by Headline in England (February) and by Forge Books in the US (August).

Legacies (Dallas)

"Legacies" is the fifteenth episode and season finale in the second season (2013) of the television series Dallas. It will air along with the final episode in the season, Guilt by Association, functioning as a two-hour finale. It will finally answer the question that was uttered in The Furious and the Fast, Who Shot J.R.?