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Definition of Bequeathing
1. bequeath [v] - See also: bequeath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bequeathing
Literary usage of Bequeathing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1820)
"Of the bequeathing of Inheritances in general, and whom a Person may or must ...
bequeathing an Inheritance defined. 2i Who, and how many Persons may be ..."
2. The Office of Surrogate, Surrogates, and Surrogates Courts, and Executors by Isaac Dayton (1861)
"The power of bequeathing is coeval with the first rudiments of the English law ;
for we have no traces or memorials of any time when it did not exist(c) The ..."
3. 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)
"... as to the real estate a resulting trust for the heir; which cannot be affected
by an unattested codicil, bequeathing a lapsed share of the residue («). ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1903)
"... the tumult of mankind," a chapel, where he passed his closing years, and
finally died, bequeathing to posterity the benediction of his saintly life. ..."
5. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1881)
"Turner; (y) to which may be added Mirehouse v. Scaife, (z) where a testator,
after bequeathing certain pecuniary legacies, declared his will to be, ..."
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