词汇 | specific-legacy |
释义 | specific legacy noun[ C ] LAWukus a particular named object or asset that is given to someone out of the general assets of someone who has died: He added a codicil to his will giving specific legacies of €10,000 to each of his children. Compare general legacy Examples of specific legacyspecific legacy It is like a specificlegacy, but is limited (by the word devise) to real estate. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It would seem to follow that a legacy of all the money to the credit of the testator in a particular bank is a specificlegacy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We emphasize that political actors acting in the context of specific legacies politicize social conflicts, alter which social conflicts have partisan relevance and even create important fault lines. Specific legacies are liable to ademption where the specific thing perishes or ceases to belong to the testator, e.g. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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