She left precise instructions for a large number of personal legacies and specific bequests to the Chatsworth House Trust, and the remainder of her possessions she left to us.
Mr. Koch, who lived in a rent-controlled apartment as a congressman and collected a $130,000 salary from the city during his last year as mayor, left the bulk of the $850,000 in specific bequests in his will, and an estimated $9 million to $10 million more, to his family.
In his last will, which he signed January 22 , 1868 Pierce left a large number of specific bequests such as paintings, swords, horses, and other items to friends, family, and neighbors.
One solution: Provide that specific dollar bequests not exceed a certain percentage of your assets.
Mr. William Parsons, of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley, was holding forth on "How Specific Must A Charitable Bequest Be to Be Decuctible".
Under full information, the first-best can be decentralized by a linear subsidy on informal aid, a linear tax on bequests when the parent is dependent and state specific lump-sum transfers which provide insurance.
Surprising specifics, and curiosity about them, go back at least as far as Shakespeare's bequest to his wife of his "second-best bed".
Bequest secretary, Dundee University.
(The Tate Gallery now holds that bequest).
