The phrase "attributed to the legacy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the origins or influences of a particular idea, action, or phenomenon that is linked to a legacy.
Example: "The innovative design of the new product is largely attributed to the legacy of its founder, who was known for his forward-thinking approach."
Alternatives: "linked to the legacy" or "associated with the legacy".
Erica Jong's 15th anniversary edition of Fear of Flying attributed to the legacy of Flaubert's novel a "considerable pressure" to kill off her adulterous heroine.
Tom Pemberton's spiritual fatigue -- variously attributed to the legacy of the 1960's, to Christianity's insufficient response to the destruction of European Jewry, to his own Oedipal struggles and to the whole damn 20th century -- seems to have infected his author, whoever that may be.
The city's name is a modification of the ancient Olisipo (Ulyssipo), and its founding has been attributed to the legacy of Ulysses (Odysseus), the hero of Homer's Odyssey; to Elisha, purported to have been a grandson of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham; and, more credibly, to Phoenician colonists.
This was attributed to the legacy effect of precipitation changes in both wet and dry years, and to the resilience of the biomes in the dry years.
Africa today is afflicted by many problems related to under-development, much of which has been attributed to the legacy of the slave trade and also to the colonial period (1885 to 1960).
This is attributed to the legacy of whole-genome duplications but I find that explanation dubious.
All these policies could be meaningfully attributed to the Legalists, whose intellectual legacy was as a result discredited.
He called the hits to earnings "legacy issues" that should be attributed to the former management.
"There is no new single probe or bespoke inquiry into deaths attributed to the British army," said assistant chief constable Mark Hamilton, head of the PSNI's legacy and justice department.
This outcome can, of course, partially be attributed to the fact that the nuclear agreement was the work of Democratic President Barack Obama, and is already being framed as the legacy of his presidency.
Spatial concentration of an industry can be attributed to the benefits of agglomeration and socially-based co-operation, in combination with the influence of knowledge legacies in a complementary and synergistic process.
