specific legacy
noun[C]
LAWukusaparticularnamedobjectorassetthat is given to someone out of thegeneralassetsof someone who hasdied:
Headdedacodicilto his will givingspecificlegaciesof €10,000 to each of hischildren.
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general legacy
Examplesofspecific legacy
specific legacy
It is like aspecificlegacy, but is limited (by the word devise) to real estate.
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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 aspecificlegacy.
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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.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Specific legacies are liable to ademption where the specific thing perishes or ceases to belong to the testator, e.g.
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