sb. [f. LEGATE v. + -EE1.] A person to whom a legacy has been bequeathed.
1679–88. Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden), 99. Thomas Hayter, a legatee to John Moorhouse.
1693. T. Power, in Dryden’s Juvenal, xii. (1697), 313. The former Legatees are blotted out.
1781. Cowper, Charity, 45. Mammon makes the world his legatee Through fear, not love.
1822. Hazlitt, Table-t., I. xii. 281. Legacies and fortunes left, on condition that the legatee shall take the name and style of the testator.
1880. Muirhead, Ulpian, xxiv. § 20. A legacy cannot be charged on a legatee.
Hence † Legatee v. rare–1, trans., to hand over to a legatee, to transfer by will.
1797. Stat. Acc. Scotl., XIX. 189. A mortification, legateed by Mr. John Kemp.
