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Legacy

Legacy Meaning & Definition
Legacy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Legacy?

[n] (law) a gift of personal property by will

Synonyms | Synonyms for Legacy: bequest

Related Terms | Find terms related to Legacy: attested copy | bequeathal | bequest | birthright | borough-English | by-product | codicil | coheirship | consequence | consequent | coparcenary | corollary | derivation | derivative | development | devise | distillate | effect | entail | event | eventuality | eventuation | fruit | gavelkind | harvest | heirloom | heirship | hereditament | heritable | heritage | heritance | incorporeal hereditament | inheritance | issue | law of succession | line of succession | logical outcome | mode of succession | offshoot | offspring | outcome | outgrowth | patrimony | postremogeniture | precipitate | primogeniture | probate | product | result | resultant | reversion | sequel | sequela | sequence | sequent | succession | testament | ultimogeniture | upshot | will

See Also | gift | heritage | inheritance

Legacy In Webster's Dictionary

\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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