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legatees
noun
Plural of legatee
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Legatees are two to four times more likely to be admitted to the best universities than non-legatees.America's universities are probably the most politically correct places on the planet.
Successful legatees have almost the same test scores as successful non-legatees.Given the secrecy of the admissions process, this argument is hard to verify.
An executor or administrator has to collect the assets of the estate, ascertain and pay the taxes and debts, and distribute the surplus to the legatees or intestate takers.
He must then distribute the assets to heirs and legatees.
His legatees in this vein include Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Jeff Koons.
The mercenaries in "Blood Meridian" are said to ride "like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote".
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Miss Faguiani, the present Dowager Lady Hertford, was the legatee of Selwyn's property; the late Lord, with that lady and her fortune, no doubt became the possessor of these letters, and by his executors they have been transferred for a consideration to the hands of a publisher.
When a legatee lives in a third country it is harder still.
Howard Dean was a legatee at Yale University, just like George Bush.
Visiting the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, in 1914, the archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Dual Monarchy (and incidentally legatee, from 1875, of the rights of the House of Austria Este to Modena), was shot to death by a nationalist Serb.
As the church approached the conclusion of the first millennium of its history, it had become the legatee of the spiritual, administrative, and intellectual resources of the early centuries.
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