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Example sentences for "legatees"

Lexicographically close words:
legall; legally; legat; legate; legatee; legates; legati; legatine; legation; legatione
  1. There are more than twenty counsel against him, for all the legatees under the former will are represented.

  2. That man behind is Stickon; he is for one of the legatees also.

  3. Three persons only can be legatees who have testamentary capacity, that is, who are legally capable of taking under a will.

  4. None of the other legatees will suffer, I suppose?

  5. It is our property--we are the legatees of the laborers who have piled it up.

  6. Lyly's Legatees and the relation between Euphuism and the Renaissance.

  7. Lyly's legatees and the relation between Euphuism and the Renaissance 43 Section IV.

  8. I mean to see, if I can, that justice be done to the poor of the city of Barchester generally, who are, in fact, the legatees under the will.

  9. In other words, the legatees under the founder's will have received no advantage from the increase in the value of the property during the last four centuries, such increase having been absorbed by the so-called warden.

  10. The buildings include the Whitworth Hall (the gift of the legatees of Sir Joseph Whitworth), the Manchester Museum and the Christie Library, which is a building for the university library given by R.

  11. Dr Lee, the first bishop of Manchester, left his library to Owens College, and the legatees of Sir Joseph Whitworth bought and presented E.

  12. The residuary legatees will be therefore entitled to claim in the following proportions, viz.

  13. All the legatees murmured after him 'Very fair!

  14. The legatees looked uncomfortably at the carpet: the lawyer was blacker than before.

  15. The other ex-legatees received the news with surprise and some apprehension.

  16. For the better safety of their master's interests the two legatees were informed that the lawyers had at last woke up, and had terrible sleuth-hounds on their track, under whose deadly eyes Gray had fallen a victim.

  17. The three legatees were among those who watched this business activity with satisfaction.

  18. That energetic young man, intent upon earning the fees due to him, and with a keen eye to future business, shadowed the legatees everywhere.

  19. So far as the legatees were concerned, Miss Fairbrother's secretary did not see fit to relax his vigilance.

  20. Peculiar knowledge of these legacies falls in the way of a junior clerk, who blackmails the legatees and uses his power as a lever for his own advancement.

  21. We who were present as expectant legatees were taken aback, one and all, and when I use this expression about my own feelings I am choosing an exceedingly mild one.

  22. As soon as the legacies are paid the legatees would not be able to obtain any employment in husbandry until the legacies are spent!

  23. Minoret, giving advice to the three legatees of the old physician.

  24. He also assured the Camusot de Marvilles that they should be the legatees of the old musician despite the faithful Schmucke.

  25. The legatees looked uncomfortably at the carpet; the lawyer was blacker than before.

  26. If there are not sufficient assets to pay the general legatees they must abate rateably.

  27. Legatees and next of kin are little apt to forget such matters.

  28. The legatees will be under no other restraints than those imposed by the law, public opinion, and their own conscience.

  29. The only result will be, that the law will declare all such conditions to be utterly void; and the legatees will own the slaves, entirely freed from all such conditions.

  30. The latter restraint only may possibly avail the slaves; and their happy condition may be continued, if all the legatees are, like Dr.

  31. In complete but blissful ignorance that the other existed, the young legatees fell in love with persons unmentioned in the will and performed the highly commendable but exceedingly complicating act of matrimony.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legatees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.