1627 T. Jackson Treat. Catholike Faith ii. 10 If the ship which is bequeathed by legacie be taken in peeces, neither the materialls nor the ship which is made of them, is due to the legatee.

1693 T. Power tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xii. 246 The former Legatees are blotted out.

1740 Clerk's Instructor Eccl. Courts 294 The said H.W. and A.W. his Wife, the Residuary Devisee and Legatee of the last Will and Testament of the said E.P. deceased.

1781 W. Cowper Charity 45 Mammon makes the world his legatee Through fear, not love.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xii. 281 Legacies and fortunes left, on condition that the legatee shall take the name and style of the testator.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Ulpian Rules xxiv, in tr. Gaius Institutes 419 A legacy cannot be charged on a legatee.

1920 R. A. Freeman Savant's Vendetta iv. 54 The testamentary arrangements of eccentric people must, from time to time, have put their legatees in possession of some very queer property.

1988 J. Heller Picture This ii. 19 The year after Rembrandt and Saskia married, each made a will appointing the other sole legatee.

2012 Independent 10 May 19/3 Professional share-holders began to think that they had become a species of what is known in estate law as a residuary legatee.

1797 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIX. 189 A mortification, legateed by Mr. John Kemp.

1888 Rep. Consuls U.S. Nov. 640 With the exception of such as are..legateed for public uses or to the public property of the canton.