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Another word for legatee

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Noun
      1. Anyone who receives property of a deceased person either by will or by law
      2. A person who succeeds or is in line to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office.
      3. A person who inherits or is legally entitled to inherit, through the natural action of the law, another's property or title upon the other's death
      1. A woman who stands to inherit
      2. A female heir, esp. to great wealth
      1. (Computing, programming) A class, etc. that derives from another code element through inheritance.
      2. Someone who inherits something; an heir.
      1. (--- Law) One appointed by a court to administer or hold in trust property in bankruptcy or in a lawsuit
      2. (--- Football) A member of the offensive team eligible to catch a forward pass.
      3. A person appointed by a court to receive and responsibly administer funds or property connected with ongoing litigation.
    See also:

    beneficiary

    heir

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Sentence Examples

  • Usually he was residuary legatee.

  • To Bowdoin College he gave land, money and apparatus; and he made the college his residuary legatee, bequeathing to it his collection of paintings and drawings, then considered the finest in the country.

  • Esther, daughter of a merchant named Edward Johnson, a dependant, and legatee to a small amount, of Sir William Temple's (born in March 1680), whose acquaintance he had made at Moor Park in 1689, and whom he has immortalized as "Stella," came over with her companion Rebecca Dingley, a poor relative of the Temple family, and was soon permanently domiciled in his neighbourhood.

  • Pratt Institute, founded in 1887 by Charles Pratt (1830-1891), and the residuary legatee of his wife, who died in 1907, is one of the most successful manual and industrial training schools in the country, and its kindergarten normal is one of the best known in the United States.

  • Among the obligations which he enumerated as necessarily and justly resting on his legatee was the duty of respecting the arrangements by which he had provided for the establishment of the Domaine de la couronne and the Domaine prive de l'etat.

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