legatee
[leg-uh-tee]
noun
a person to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
Origin of legatee
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Related Words for legatee
partner, proprietor, holder, landowner, heir, recipient, beneficiary, buyer, purchaser, squire, governor, possessor, keeper, heritor, sharer, heiress, legatee, receiver, successor, payeeExamples from the Web for legatee
Contemporary Examples of legatee
Varun sees himself as a legatee of his father, Sanjay Gandhi, not his great-grandfather Nehru.
Historical Examples of legatee
Just so much as the testator parts with the legatee obtains.
Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense MetaphysicsWilliam Thomas Thornton
The legacy and the legatee have proved equally unsubstantial.
Six Letters From the ColoniesRobert Seaton
There is "many a slip betwixt the cup" of the legator and "the lip" of the legatee.
George Muller of BristolArthur T. Pierson
He may himself be a legatee and endeavor to transfer to himself.
Commercial LawSamuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, and Richard W. Hill
Then, too, there was a possibility that Herbert would turn out a legatee.
Herbert Carter's LegacyHoratio Alger
legatee
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