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NOUN
  1. someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed

How To Use legatee In A Sentence

  • The case itself involved a claim by the executor of an estate to retain part of a legacy due to a legatee sufficient to satisfy a debt due by the legatee to the estate.
  • First, to prevent sinking too much time into constantly correcting your delegatee, and second, to preserve his dignity. Making Work Work
  • Well, half to me and half to Dane, but of course I was Dane's sole legatee. THE THORN BIRDS
  • Did the delegatee focus on one part of the assignment at the expense of another? Making Work Work
  • Although in principle, testaments and codicils need not differ in making bequests to different groups of legatees, in fact we observe such differences.
  • To make sure you are prepared for the meeting, ask the delegatee to email you an agenda in advance so you can have answers or solutions to her questions or problems. Making Work Work
  • Once you both know and understand what went wrong and where, turn the work back over to the delegatee and let her fix it on her own, giving her a deadline for when you will follow up again. Making Work Work
  • In 1798 the General Assembly enacted that if executors or administrators should have funds in their hands belonging to the estate, and the legatee or distributee entitled could not be found for seven years, the same should be paid to the University to be held without interest until the end of ten years, and if the claimant did not appear, it should be irreclaimable. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
  • This also will make the delegatee feel confident that her concerns will be fully addressed. Making Work Work
  • A will nominating no heir, but only legatees, i.e. persons who will receive certain objects or rights, is called a codicil.
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