legacy : Idioms & Phrases
Lapsed devise , Lapsed legacy
(Law) , a devise, or legacy, which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or for ether cause.
Webster 1913
Legacy duty
- a tax paid to government on legacies. Wharton.
Webster 1913
Legacy hunter
- one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.
Webster 1913
Specific legacy
(Law) , a bequest of a particular thing, as of a particular animal or piece of furniture, specified and distinguished from all others. Wharton. Burrill.
Webster 1913
Vested legacy
(Law) , a legacy the right to which commences in præsenti, and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of age is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. Blackstone.
