Middle English Dictionary Entry
legat n.
Entry Info
| Forms | legat n. Also legate, leget, (?error) legace. |
| Etymology | OF legat legacy. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A testamentary bequest, a legacy; also, a will.
Associated quotations
- (1438) Will Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.4328 : All myn owe dettes, legates, mispresyons, extorcyons..never mow not bene rered of myn owen godes.
- (1439) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.515 : And performyng my giftes and legaces as it is wretin folwyng lyk as theis may..be do yerli with ye same issues and profites..with ye mony therof comyng to performe up my seid legaces and yiftes yf any be for to do.
- (1447) RParl.5.129b : John Brokley..by his Testament..made other diversez Legatez to diversez persones.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30208 : The residue of all my gude that remanys over my legate, as it is wrytyn abowne.
- (1463) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.80 : Then this my wille and also the leget by me in my testament..stonde voyde and take none effect.
- (1466) Will York in Sur.Soc.30285 : I witt to Dane Robert Harlesay xx d. by side his leget before.
- (1466-7) *Plea & Mem.R.Lond.GildhA 88.m.4 : For suche legates & bequestes as to theim by the said Margarete in her said testament be bequothen.
- (1473-4) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum14 : It' of the legat of Rob' Kyng vj d.