'bequests' is a correct and usable word in written English
It refers to money, property, or other items that are left to someone in a will or other legal document. Example: The wealthy businessman made several generous bequests to his favorite charities in his will, ensuring that his wealth would continue to benefit causes close to his heart even after his passing.
Read also made a number of smaller bequests.
In France, the annual value of bequests and gifts has reached 15% of national income after dropping from 24% in 1900 to 4% in 1940.
Around three-quarters of this came from individuals; the rest from bequests, companies and foundations.
And the concentration in bequests is also astonishing: the 0.4% of estates worth $20m or more account for 58% of the value of all bequests.Interestingly, as the size of estates rises, the proportion going to heirs shrinks and the share left to charity increases.
The authors' main calculations also make no allowance for bequests to descendants (Mr Bush has promised that the retired should be allowed to transfer part of their individual accounts to their heirs).
A year later, Americans were granted, at death, unlimited deductions for their charitable bequests from the new estate tax.Some economists say this can be justified on the basis that taxable income should include only personal consumption and wealth creation, and money given to charity is arguably neither.
Family bequests went to her brothers; she supported the Rootham sisters and others; and she was extravagant.
This piecemeal gathering of varied bequests is hardly likely to make up a coherent collection, however.
It was a world of wills and bequests, where young lovers lived on dreams until old curmudgeons fell off their perches.Such was the fate of Constable handsome, possessed of a mind, as he said, "of the most excruciating sensibility"—and pretty Maria Bicknell, who waited seven years before they could marry in 1816.
For instance, in the three years from 1995 to 1997, the value of final estates rose 65% in the United States; but bequests to heirs grew by 57% whereas charitable bequests rose 110%.
It was a gift to Alfred Barr, MoMA's first director, who was famed for his good eye.Most of the Met's Picassos came as bequests or gifts.
