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Bequeath

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

To give personal property by will to another.

Lasher v. Lasher, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 106.

The word may be construed devise, so as to pass real estate; Wigram, Wills 11; or devise and bequeath; Laing v. Barbour, 119 Mass. 525; Dow v. Dow, 36 Me. 216; Lasher v. Lasher, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 109.

See Legacy.