Legacy
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
ACCUMULATIVE, An accumulative legacy is a second bequest given by the same testator to the same legatee, whether it be of the sare kind of thing, as money; or whether it be of different things, as, one hundred dollars, in one legacy, and a thousand dollars in another, or whether the sums are equal; or whether the legacies are of a different nature.
2 Rop. Leg. 19.