legacy

legacy
Synonyms and related words:
attested copy, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, by-product, codicil, coheirship, consequence, consequent, coparcenary, corollary, derivation, derivative, development, devise, distillate, effect, entail, event, eventuality, eventuation, fruit, gavelkind, harvest, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, issue, law of succession, line of succession, logical outcome, mode of succession, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, patrimony, postremogeniture, precipitate, primogeniture, probate, product, result, resultant, reversion, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, succession, testament, ultimogeniture, upshot, will

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  • legacy — leg·a·cy / le gə sē/ n pl cies [Medieval Latin legatio, from Latin legare to bequeath]: a gift of property by will; specif: a gift of personal property by will: bequest see also ademption compare devise conjoint leg …   Law dictionary

  • Legacy — or legacies may refer to:Buildings* Legacy Tower, a Skyscraper under construction in Chicago * Legacy Village, an outdoor shopping complex in Lyndhurst, OhioComics* Legacy (heroclix), the fourth DC Heroclix set produced by Wizkids * Legacy Virus …   Wikipedia

  • Legacy — Leg a*cy (l[e^]g [.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl. {Legacies} ( s[i^]z). [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf. OF. legat legacy. See {Legate}.] 1. A gift of property by will, esp. of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Legacy — (englisch Erbe) bezeichnet: ein deutschsprachiges Musikmagazin, Legacy (Musikmagazin) in der Wirtschaftsinformatik eine historisch gewachsene Anwendung, siehe Legacy System Subaru Legacy, ein Mittelklasseauto einen amerikanischen Film aus dem… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Legacy — (Сульмона,Италия) Категория отеля: Адрес: Vico Dell Ospedale 54, 67039 Сульмона, Италия …   Каталог отелей

  • Legacy —   [dt. »Vermächtnis«] die, ältere Datenbestände, die möglicherweise nicht mehr problemlos genutzt werden können, weil neue Programme, ein neues Betriebssystem oder ein neues Computersystem eingeführt wurden. Legacy wird auch generell als… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • legacy — late 14c., body of persons sent on a mission, from O.Fr. legatie legate s office, from M.L. legatia, from L. legatus ambassador, envoy, noun use of pp. of legare appoint by a last will, send as a legate (see LEGATE (Cf. legate)). Sense of… …   Etymology dictionary

  • legacy — [n] inheritance, heritage bequest, birthright, devise, endowment, estate, gift, heirloom, throwback, tradition; concepts 337,710 …   New thesaurus

  • legacy — ► NOUN (pl. legacies) 1) an amount of money or property left to someone in a will. 2) something handed down by a predecessor. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of computer hardware or software) that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its… …   English terms dictionary

  • legacy — [leg′ə sē] n. pl. legacies [ME legacie < OFr < ML legatia < L legatus: see LEGATE] 1. money or property left to someone by a will; bequest 2. anything handed down from, or as from, an ancestor ☆ 3. a student applying or admitted to a… …   English World dictionary

  • legacy — A disposition of personalty by will. A bequest. In a technical sense and strictly construed, legacy is a gift or bequest by will of personal property, whereas a devise is a testamentary disposition of real estate, but such distinction will not be …   Black's law dictionary

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