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Definition of Bequeathed
1. bequeath [v] - See also: bequeath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bequeathed
Literary usage of Bequeathed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office, Public Record Office, Great Britain (1907)
"... and a garden in the same town bequeathed to them by John de ... a messuage
and a garden there bequeathed by John le Hunter, a messuage there bequeathed ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Г have given him, in part of the fortune intended to be bequeathed to my said
daughter, the sum of five thousand dollars, and my said son-in-law having ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"PROFESSOR ALPHEUS S. PACKARD bequeathed about 2000 scientific books to Bowdoin
... He also bequeathed $200 to the college to be reinvested until it shall ..."
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)
"and to their respective heirs male " are on condition of taking the testator's
name ; the residue of the personal property bequeathed to A. on attaining the ..."
5. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"He rounded this water with his hand, deepened and clarified it in his thought,
and in his will bequeathed it to Concord. I see by its face that it is ..."
6. 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)
"Personal property bequeathed upon trust, which does not exhaust the whole: the
Executor not entitled to the surplus, [p. 255.] Devise and bequest upon ..."
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