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Definition of Bequests
1. bequest [n] - See also: bequest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bequests
Literary usage of Bequests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"bequests within the statute — a legacy to erect a new school- and to endow ...
bequests within the statute — devise of freehold houses to and purchase land ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The law governing bequests, being concerned with " property and civil rights",
... Any question concerning bequests is, therefore, one of provincial, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"KENNEDY'S bequests BY the will of John Stewart Kennedy, the banker of New York
City, who died on October 31, in his eightieth year, bequests are made for ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"Of bequests to superstitious and charitable uses. ... Other bequests to superstitious
uses, not mentioned by the act, are deemed void by the general policy ..."
5. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Cecil Clare Marston Dale, Henry Wilmot Seton, Great Britain Court of Appeal, Great Britain High Court of Justice. Chancery Division, W. Clowes (1893)
"Inquiries as to particulars and values of specific bequests.—[Form 1, p. 1357.]
And Let each specific legatee to be named in the Chief Clerk's certificate, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Legacies by Roper Stote Donnison Roper (1847)
"bequests of of B. This opinion, however does not appear to have been chattels
adopted ... bequests of chattels real, &c. which, in devises of estates of ..."
7. A History of the Boston City Hospital from Its Foundation Until 1904 by Isabel Adams (Hampton) Robb, Boston City Hospital, David Williams Cheever, George Washington Gay, Amos Lawrence Mason, John Bapst Blake (1906)
"Nearly half a million dollars have already been received, and more bequests are
in prospect, simply awaiting the fulfilment of certain conditions imposed by ..."
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