'bequest' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that means a gift of money or property left to someone in a will. For example: His father left him a generous bequest in his will.
After Oxford, Reid received a small bequest from a godfather and decided "almost on the spot" not to get a job but to "have a go at this poetry business".
The bequest of $4.8m to the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and $1.2m to the town's Brooks Memorial Library were the largest each institution has ever received.
Frehner said: "The Board of Trustees and Directors of Kunstmuseum Bern are surprised and delighted, but at the same time do not wish to conceal the fact that this magnificent bequest brings with it a considerable burden of responsibility and a wealth of questions of the most difficult and sensitive kind, and questions in particular of a legal and ethical nature".
But decline stopped short of disaster, because Leeds never depended on a single industry, as Sheffield did on steel or Bradford on cloth.In this section The new-look BBC Overreact in haste, repent at leisure Streets paved with brass Estimating her bequest What a carve-up A mite unfair Sick of waiting ReprintsFading industries have re-emerged in new guises.
EMILE GUIMET'S bequest of the Asian treasures he had bought on a round-the-world tour in the 1870s fuelled the French craze for Asian antiquities and helped put the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques on a par with the British Museum and the Baur Collection in Geneva.This summer the French collection has added a twist.
Chantrey was also a successful artist whose bequest to the nation allowed what is now the Tate Gallery to buy important contemporary sculpture at the time.
That could be Mr Middelhoff's most enduring bequest.
And her favoured causes are anxious because next year they will have to compete for grants from the fund on exactly the same basis as every other charity.Diana's bequest to charity has been positive.
The centre-right government of Mikulas Dzurinda narrowly lost office in 2006.Its bequest of competitiveness and credibility lasted for two years, during which Slovakia had rapid growth and low inflation, stoked by foreign investment and an export boom.
Governments might find it easier to devise a system of compulsory insurance to pay for old people's nursing care than to tussle with a grieving family over the sale of granny's most valuable bequest.
But he was soon to discover that possession of a complicated fortune, an asset to a Labour politician during his ascent of the greasy pole, becomes a liability when he is at the top of it.Had Mme Bourgeois's bequest been the only complication, Mr Robinson might still be a minister today.
