bequest
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But they must first deal with the legalities of their bequest.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 26, 2025
In 1838 the U.S. received more than $500,000 from that bequest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
The case landed in the Court of Chancery - where Elizabeth argued her late husband had no power to grant Shakespeare's home and mentioned her grandfather's bequest to her mother.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
Perhaps its most lasting bequest to television, however, is the messy friend defined by Dunham’s Hannah Horvath.
From Salon • Jul. 10, 2025
The commission’s most important bequest from the Pentagon’s nuclear energy apparatus was the Manhattan District’s network of atomic labs, which Groves had kept intact after the war.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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