Legatum
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Civil Law. A legacy; a gift left by will.
Dig. 3136.
A gift left by a deceased person to be executed by the heir.
Inst. 2. 20. 1.
In Common Law. A legacy. In Old Ecclesiastical Law. A soul scot or a gift to the church.
Cowell.
LEGATUM MORTE TESTATORIS TANtum confirmatur, sicut donatio inter vivos traditione sola. A legacy is confirmed by the death of the testator, in the same manner as a gift from a living person is by delivery alone.
Dyer, 143.