bequest

Receiving a bequest from your father will not change the many years you had growing up.

A promise or statement of intent is not the same as a bequest or beneficiary designation.

British scientist James Smithson’s bequest was intended to support “the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”

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.

The left-field bequest — as if tending to Walter’s legacy with an overdue book of his correspondence wasn’t enough — is, to Iris, a mystery on top of a conundrum.