Sentence examples for bequeath property from inspiring English sources

He accepted that women were inferior, but he gave them the right to inherit and bequeath property.

With real estate, instead of jettisoning some dogs from a stock portfolio, the donor has the ability to bequeath property that can either be preserved as a museum or headquarters, or sold for cash.

Palestinians who had acquired real estate prior to 2001 were barred from bequeathing property to their children.

Women owned and bequeathed property, filed lawsuits, and bore witness in court proceedings without the authority of their father or husband.

Bequeathed property benefits from a step-up, meaning that gains unrealized by an owner at the time of his death permanently escape income taxation.

During her lifetime, and in her will, she bequeathed property and personal possessions to Notre Dame, St. Denis, and the convent in Poissy.

He also had sole responsibility for the rearing and guardianship of children, and the common law gave him absolute freedom to bequeath his property outside his family.

In "The House of the Seven Gables," Nathaniel Hawthorne wonderfully describes this conviction: But there is no one thing which men so rarely do, whatever the provocation or inducement, as to bequeath patrimonial property away from their own blood.

Entail provisionswere ancient and complex strategies worked into English law wherebythe capacity to sell or bequeath real property was restricted sothat the family of the original owner kept control.

Why shouldn't the owner of a hit song or a best-selling book be able to bequeath that property to his children, just as he would the family farm, heirloom jewelry or a successful business?

AS ERASMUS reported back in August, a row has been raging among practitioners of English law over how far they should go in accommodating the desire of Muslim clients to handle and bequeath their property in accordance with the strictures of Islam.