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Make a bequest ; transfer personal property by will.

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To specify by will the recipient of personal property.
Compare devise.


Example: In Abel’s will he bequeaths his automobile and wristwatch to his son.

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verb

1. To give (property) to another person after one's death: leave, will. Law devise. See give/take/reciprocity, law.
2. To convey (something) from one generation to the next: hand down, hand on, pass (along or on), transmit. See give/take/reciprocity.

v

Definition: give in a will
Antonyms: take

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

To dispose of personal property owned by a decedent at the time of death as a gift under the provisions of the decedent's will.

The term bequeath applies only to personal property. A testator, to give real property to someone in a testamentary provision, devises it. Bequeath is sometimes used as a synonym for devise.

See words rhyming with "bequeather."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Bequeath.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - testamentere, lade gå i arv

Nederlands (Dutch)
legateren, nalaten

Français (French)
v. tr. - léguer

Deutsch (German)
v. - hinterlassen, vermachen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - κληροδοτώ (με διαθήκη), αφήνω

Italiano (Italian)
lasciare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - legar em testamento

Русский (Russian)
завещать, передать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - legar, dejar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - testamentera, efterlämna

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
遗赠, 遗留

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 遺贈, 遺留

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - ~을 유언으로 양도하다, ~에 전하다, ~을 위탁하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 遺言で譲る, 後世に残す

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) خلف, أوصى ب, أورث‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮הנחיל, הוריש‬

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