LEGACY
\lˈɛɡəsi], \lˈɛɡəsi], \l_ˈɛ_ɡ_ə_s_i]\
Definitions of LEGACY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
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A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; - obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
By Oddity Software
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A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
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A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; - obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
By Noah Webster.
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An outdated legal word meaning personal property left by a will. The more common term for this type of property is bequest. Compare devise.
By Oddity Software
By Daniel Lyons
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A bequest; something left by will; anything bequeathed. Legacy duty, a Government tax on testamentary bequests, graduated according to degree of relationship.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
