General legacy
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A pecuniary legacy, payable out of the general assets of a testator.
2 Bl. Comm. 512; Ward, Leg. 1, 16.
One so given as not to amount to a bequest of a particular thing or particular money sf the testator, distinguished from others of the same kind; one of quantity merely, not specific.
Tifft v. Porter, 8 N. Y. 5l8; Evans v. Hunter, 86 Iowa, 413, 53 N. W. 277, 17 In In A. 308, 41 Am. St. Rep. 503; Kelly v. Richardson, 100 Ala. 584, 13 South. 785.