bequest

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.

But because there were three entities all bearing the Boerelegioen name, the court found that Mr Gray's bequest made was "vague concerning which entity was the intended beneficiary" of his will.

But for the Orlando Museum of Art, which recently received a $1.8 million bequest from the estate of Margaret Young, that gift couldn’t have come at a better time.