Bequeath: To give a gift to someone through a will.
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Bequeath To leave personal property through a will. Compare: devise
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(v) Bequath is the act of giving a property or asset owned by a person to another person by naming them in the will executed by the owner of such property or asset.
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Bequeath. A gift of personal property by will.
Bicycle. Held to be a "carriage" within a statute forbidding fast driving. Taylor v. Goodwin, L.R., 4 Q.B.D. 228 (1879).
BEQUEATH : The legal word which refers to the giving of personal property by will.
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bequeath
v. to give personal property under provisions of a will (as distinct from "devise," which is to give real estate). 2) the act of giving any asset by the terms of a will.
bequeath To leave personal property to another in one's will.
bequest A gift of personal property by one's will; as distinguished from a devise, which is a gift of real property; personal property is said to be bequeathed.
Bequeath -To give personal property by a will. This term has been replaced by the term "devise" under the Michigan Revised Probate Code. See DEVISE, MICHIGAN REVISED PROBATE CODE.
TO BEQUEATH. To give personal property by will to another.
BEQUEST. A gift by last will or testament; a legacy. (q. v.) This word is sometimes, though improperly used, as synonymous with devise. There is, however, a distinction between them.
Bequeath
Definition - Transitive Verb
[Old English becwethan to speak to, address, leave by will, from be- to, about + cwethan to say]
: to give by will used esp. of personal property but sometimes of real property; ...
When property bequeathed in a will cannot be given to the beneficiary because it was sold to pay off the deceased debts.
When a person bequeaths specific property through a will and then gives that property to the beneficiary while still living. (See also: ademption)
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Expanded Legal Definition of Benefit of InventoryBequeath or Bequests Gift of personal property or chattels by will.
Former periods - the 16th and 17th centuries especially - had bequeathed to it high standards of scientific investigation, ...
Three parties are ordinarily needed for the relation to arise: the settlor, who bequeaths or deeds the property for another's benefit; the trustee, in whose hands the control of the property is vested and who receives a fee fixed by law; ...
devise deĀ-vised deĀ-visĀ-ing [Anglo-French deviser to divide, share, bequeath, ultimately from Latin dividere to divide] : to give (property) by will ;specif : to give (real property) by will ...
A person to whom property is bequeathed (q.v.) in a will.
lessee
A person to whom property is leased.
A residuary bequest is a gift of the residue of the testator`s personal estate, namely, of what is left after payment of debts and legacies. A specific bequest is, strictly, where a testator bequeaths to a person all his property of a certain class ...
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