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Definition of Legacy

1. Noun. (law) a gift of personal property by will.

Definition of Legacy

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

Definition of Legacy

1. Noun. (legal) money or property bequeathed to someone in a will ¹

2. Noun. Something inherited from a predecessor; a heritage ¹

3. Noun. The descendant of an alumnus ¹

4. Adjective. (computing) of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain ¹

5. Adjective. left behind; old or no longer in active use ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Legacy

1. something bequeathed [n -CIES]

Medical Definition of Legacy

1. Pl.Legacies. [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, especially. 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. Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legacy

Literary usage of Legacy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"legacy. A gift of personal property by last will and testament. ... It Is said that the word legacy In a will may include real as well as personal property ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"Petition by WE York and another against Mary McCall, JB McCall's executrix, to recover a legacy. From a judgment in tlie Superior Court remanding the cause ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"If a legatee dies before the testator, the legacy is a lost or lapsed legacy, ... And if a contingent legacy be left to any one, as when he attains, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Thackwell: where the legacy was to a superstitious use, it was always held, that the purpose was to give to charity ; and although ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"A designation of a general legacy as a specific one In a residuary clause of a will will not change its character, where the term "specific" is evidently ..."

6. The Parliamentary Debates by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1824)
")MMONS, legacy Duties. sound principles of political economy, might be considered as so much taken from the capital of the country. The amount of legacy ..."

7. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A specific legacy is " something which a testator, identifying it by a sufficient description and manifesting an intention that it should be enjoyed in the ..."

8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: And of by William Peere Williams, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1826)
"40 Where an executor has an express legacy for his care and pains, though the next of kin has also an express legacy, yet the surplus shall go according to ..."

9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"legacy. A gift of personal property by last will and testament. ... It Is said that the word legacy In a will may include real as well as personal property ..."

10. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"Petition by WE York and another against Mary McCall, JB McCall's executrix, to recover a legacy. From a judgment in tlie Superior Court remanding the cause ..."

11. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"If a legatee dies before the testator, the legacy is a lost or lapsed legacy, ... And if a contingent legacy be left to any one, as when he attains, ..."

12. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Thackwell: where the legacy was to a superstitious use, it was always held, that the purpose was to give to charity ; and although ..."

13. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"A designation of a general legacy as a specific one In a residuary clause of a will will not change its character, where the term "specific" is evidently ..."

14. The Parliamentary Debates by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1824)
")MMONS, legacy Duties. sound principles of political economy, might be considered as so much taken from the capital of the country. The amount of legacy ..."

15. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A specific legacy is " something which a testator, identifying it by a sufficient description and manifesting an intention that it should be enjoyed in the ..."

16. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: And of by William Peere Williams, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1826)
"40 Where an executor has an express legacy for his care and pains, though the next of kin has also an express legacy, yet the surplus shall go according to ..."

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