What (who) is legatee - definition
PERSONS WHO RECEIVE PORTIONS OF AN ESTATE
Legatees
Legatee
·noun One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
legatee
[?l?g?'ti:]
¦ noun a person who receives a legacy.
Origin
C17: from legate 'bequeath' (from L. legare 'delegate, bequeath') + -ee.
legatee
n. a person or organization receiving a gift of an object or money under the terms of the will of a person who has died. Although technically a legatee does not receive real property (a devisee), "legatee" is often used to designate a person who takes anything pursuant (according) to the terms of a will. The best generic term is beneficiary, which avoids the old-fashioned distinctions between legatees taking legacies (personal property) and devisees taking devises (real property), terms which date from the Middle Ages.
See also: beneficiary devise devisee legacy will
Wikipedia
Legatee
A legatee, in the law of wills, is any individual or organization bequeathed any portion of a testator's estate.
Examples of use of legatee
1. Perot later gave Walker an autographed copy of one of those charts, as a tribute to a legatee.
2. But we also then need to support and are trying to support efforts at education. I believe strongly, as an educator, that there is no greater way to empower people than to educate them, to educate their children, so that one generation is not condemned to –– does not watch its children condemned to the same poverty that it has experienced. When I teach at Stanford, one of the great things about being there is that next to a kid who is a fourth–generation Stanford legatee is a kid who‘s a first–generation college student or who might be an itinerant farm worker whose parents never even finished high school, and there they are both in college. That‘s the kind of upward mobility that we need to see. And I‘ve been impressed, for instance, with President Lula in Brazil for his emphasis on education.