(n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
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Legatee
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(n.) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
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(1) Northern Ireland is the legatee of a war of conquest between the English crown and the native Irish, which ebbed and flowed for centuries and ended with the island’s partition between the overwhelmingly Catholic south and west and the predominantly Protestant north-east.
(2) The 43 volumes found in Williams's flat on the day he died now belong to his friend and legatee Paul Richardson.
(3) Already Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, is presenting herself as the true legatee of New Labour’s schools policy, defender of academies and their Conservative offspring, free schools.