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US
/bɪˈkwɛst/
]
[ UK /bɪkwˈɛst/ ]
[ UK /bɪkwˈɛst/ ]
NOUN
- (law) a gift of personal property by will
How To Use bequest In A Sentence
- Note 23: See change in terminology from "pencions" to "revenues" in registers referring to the performance of princesses 'Henrician bequest back From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
- According to the bequest, the lecture series aims ‘to explicate the concept of the human mind through theory and empirical research.’
- What, one might ask, about bequests in favour of corporations or instructions to build the testator a monument?
- Presumably it's precisely in order to avoid incurring such a duty that persons choose to transfer things by bequest rather than by gift.
- As far as is known, however, no other members of the family received any of the Duchess' jewels by bequest.
- From various patrons they may receive outright gifts, sponsorships, bequests, donations in kind and money.
- On the way through it you pick up some non-internal assets (if you don't already have some as a result of bequest or student-life thrift).
- Acquired by bequest in 1921, it used to be considered one of the Metropolitan Museum's greatest early Northern paintings.
- Funding comes from campaigns, bequests, legacies and the continuing generosity of Cantabrians.
- An inscription recounts that the bridge was built as a bequest in his will by one Flavos, a Romanized Gaulish aristocrat who was a flamen of the Imperial Cult of Rome and Augustus.