Legacy

Definition of Legacy

Leg´a`cy Pronunciation: lĕg´å`sŷ

n.

1.

A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

2.

A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; - obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world.

- Tyndale.

He came and told his legacy.

- Chapman.

Legacy duty
a tax paid to government on legacies.

Legacy hunter
one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy. - Wharton.

Related Words

attested copy, bequeathal, birthright, borough-English, by-product, codicil, coheirship, consequence, consequent, coparcenary, corollary, derivation, derivative, development, devise, distillate, effect, entail, event, eventuality, eventuation, fruit, gavelkind, harvest, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, incorporeal hereditament, issue, law of succession, line of succession, logical outcome, mode of succession, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, patrimony, postremogeniture, precipitate, primogeniture, probate, product, result, resultant, reversion, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, succession, testament, ultimogeniture, upshot, will

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