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"bequest" Definitions
  1. money or property that you ask to be given to a particular person when you die

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The other shortcoming of "Finn" speaks to Mark Twain's great pioneering bequest to American letters, a bequest ignored or unnoticed by his pretenders.
The article also gave an incorrect date for the bequest.
As such, how the bequest is spent will be scrutinized.
In France until 1956 every single bequest was subject to a tax.
"We are extremely grateful for this bequest," Oxfam said in a statement.
"NO ONE SAYS bequest anymore," flinches a manager at a big charity.
It destroys one vulnerable life at the bequest of someone more powerful.
After all, loyal fans may be good bets for an eventual bequest.
The young minister's bequest allowed the nascent college to firmly establish itself.
But there is no question that Alfred Nobel's bequest has been wisely applied.
A person with substantially appreciated property who has a charitable bequest in their will or trust will likely find that utilizing this type of trust instead will allow them substantial income-tax benefits that they won't receive with their bequest.
The Cincinnati Art Museum received a $11.75 million bequest from Carl and Alice Bimel.
Word of the bequest was recently publicized because of the settling of Randlett's estate.
It can be complicated to choose whom to designate for a bequest or inheritance.
We may like to think of DNA as the neat bequest of our parents,
The bequest has been described as one of the largest in English legal history.
That same year, he pledged a $100 million bequest to the Museum of Modern Art.
If you want to put some conditions on how your bequest is spent, consider a trust.
McDermott's bequest prompted the decision to reinstall the European Art galleries to accommodate the new acquisitions.
When she died in 2008, Ross left a bequest of more than $400,000 to the museum.
Some decades later, it entered the collection of Tate Britain as a bequest from Mrs. Meyer.
If you want to put some conditions on how your bequest is spent, try a trust.
Clients may also consider adding stocks if they plan on leaving a bequest once they die.
The gift is the second bequest made to the museum by Cox and her late husband, Donald.
These individuals end up paying capital gains taxes upon inversion that they would otherwise avoid through a bequest.
His mother's bequest also perplexes me: Shouldn't his marital philosophy extend to sharing windfalls as well as debts?
But surely he would be flattered to find them wrangling over, if also rewriting, his bequest to them.
According to the museum, an earlier version of the bequest, signed in 2014, granted it most of Potter's estate.
The Art Institute of Chicago received a gift of $35 million, the largest cash bequest it has ever received.
If your grandparents or parents made a large legacy gift to charity, it was probably done through a bequest.
Thanks to a bequest from the playwright Tennessee Williams, Sewanee occupies an outsize place in the Southern literary landscape.
The decision was made for her, in a way, by the bequest of a friend who was dying. Rep.
The bequest comes despite a high-profile scandal that has engulfed the British aid organization Oxfam in recent years.
The crematory was recommended by McArthur and is the contractor used by the University of Minnesota anatomy bequest program.
It is a palimpsest upon the wall, a reminder of former glory and a bequest for a better future.
You can make your gift while you're alive or leave the government a bequest as part of your estate plan.
At the bequest of his best friend, Paul goes around from booth to booth, talking to theorists about their beliefs.
The biggest ever donation was the Ramsay Health founder Paul Ramsay's $3 billion charitable bequest following his death in 2014.
Ross, who passed away in 2008, left a bequest of over $400,000 to Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
Many books were broken up, and more than 250 examples reached the Fitzwilliam via the Marlay bequest in this way.
The musicians' Orchestra Committee said in a statement that the players were "overwhelmed with gratitude and emotion" by the bequest.
In some cases, making a bequest requires more consideration than simply writing "so-and-so gets X" into your will.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art received an $80 million bequest from trustee Florence Irving and her late husband, Herbert Irving.
Smithers's diligence in monitoring the bequest as her husband's administrator, New York State's highest court granted her standing to sue.
The bequest also comes weeks after Oxfam chiefs said they needed to cut jobs and find £16 million in savings.
Mr Casaleggio's bequest to his followers was a video predicting that robots with artificial intelligence would soon exterminate the human race.
Observations from Sweden and America, however, find only weak evidence that a child's earnings affect a parent's plans for a bequest.
Art teacher Elizabeth Verdow, who passed away in 2014, left a bequest of $1.71 million to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Oxfam said it was working with Cousins' family and its board of trustees to identify how the bequest would be used.
The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery received a bequest of more than 1,000 works from the estate of Dr. Margaret Perkins.
The Cleveland Museum of Art received a bequest of over 200 works of Japanese art from the collection of George Gund III.
The Minneapolis Institute of Art launched a long-term Asian art initiative after receiving a $6 million bequest from Alfred P. Gale.
The revised bequest named the caretaker as the sole beneficiary of Potter's entire estate, depriving PMA of a donation worth $3.3 million.
You might also expect a child's earnings to have a big effect on the size of a bequest left by a parent.
In her bequest, the longtime donor Jayne Wrightsman left more than 375 works to the museum, along with $80 million for acquisitions.
A bequest is a gift that is made through a person's will or living trust that takes effect on that person's death.
After his 1941 death, his widow Mary offered his over 800-piece archive of drawings, paintings, and other ephemera as a bequest.
The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art received a bequest of $2.5 million from the late Gerald E. Buck through the Buck Family Trust.
The collector Eli Leon left almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest.
CNN later attempted to ask Cheatham, by email and phone, about Wayne State's comments on the hospital's participation in the Body Bequest Program.
The real Mr Roth has explained his bequest as motivated by a "long-standing sense of gratitude to the city where I was born".
There is no wrong way to give to charity, and the tried-and-true bequest is a wonderful way to make a legacy gift.
One grieving father left a bequest to the town that buried his son that brought running water to the place for the first time.
One thinks, too, of the bequest of climate change left unchecked in a climactic watery tableau that threatens to swallow all three characters whole.
How would the specter of an estate tax impact someone's willingness to make a large gift or bequest to his or her children or grandchildren?
Before settling on using a bequest, it is worth a thoughtful examination of all of your options to ensure what is best for your situation.
The Bancroft Prize, established in 1948 by the trustees of Columbia University with a bequest from the historian Frederic Bancroft, includes an award of $10,000.
It reminds me that we are transitory; it feels like a bequest, and I wonder who will wear it when I'm done with it someday.
The largest gift the foundation ever made was a $264,33 bequest that was used to renovate a fountain outside the windows of Trump's Plaza Hotel.
The PMA declined Hyperalleric's request for response, saying it will not be making further comments on the case or bequest until it becomes a final judgment.
You can will your body to the Wayne State University School of Medicine to become a crash test cadaver by filling out its Body Bequest Form.
Such is his bequest to Olaf Scholz, the incoming centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) finance minister and previously the mayor of the northern port of Hamburg.
I think that would be a betrayal of Teddy Roosevelt's considerable bequest to the nation, with Cliven Bundy clones more likely to be among the owners.
The suit also suit claims that Shari Redstone manipulated her father into writing Keryn Redstone out of his personal trust and removing her $6 million bequest.
Unrelated to the Williams bequest but benefiting from its proximity is Rivendell, which opened in 2013 on the site of a former summer camp for girls.
The Bancroft, which includes an award of $10,000, was established in 1948 by the trustees of Columbia University, with a bequest from the historian Frederic Bancroft.
I joined other pundits and political analysts in treating Biden's front-runner status as fictive or inevitably fleeting and as the bequest of simple name recognition.
Mr. Morain said Direct Relief was able to try different strategies with its donor page because it currently had a bequest to cover its fund-raising budget.
This year's announcement at New York's Columbia University marked the 20083th anniversary of the Pulitzers, which began in 1917 after a bequest from newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
Partex was founded in 1938 by Portugal-based oil magnate of Armenian origin, Calouste Gulbenkian, who later left the company to the foundation started at his bequest.
In her bequest, she insisted that nothing be sold for 25 years, in the belief that future librarians should have flexibility but would keep the collection intact.
Over 22,000 objects that were acquired in 2016 were purchased, while more than four times that number of items were donated to museums or received by bequest.
The bequest includes 100 sculptures covering the 60-year career of the artist who was born María Sol Escobar, but adopted the name Marisol later in life.
She said the hospital had violated the terms of the bequest in 1995 by selling the Manhattan home that Mr. Smithers had donated for the treatment center.
The bequest comes at a time when Oxfam is trying to find 16 million pounds in savings as it grapples with the fallout from a sex abuse scandal.
Williams left his entire estate to the university, stipulating that the bequest be used to foster literature, and Sewanee has become a literary center for the entire region.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts received a $20173 million bequest from the estate of California businesswoman Madeleine Rast — the largest single gift in the museum's history.
And as the sorrowful bequest of that evening becomes known, a play that borrows unashamedly — and sometimes even slavishly — from the past finds itself blisteringly alive in the present.
The foundation, which focuses on neuroscience and oncology research at its Lisbon base, was set up at the bequest of Portugal's late industrialist Antonio Champalimaud who died in 2004.
The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston received an unrestricted $1-million bequest — its largest ever — from the late philanthropist Jane Dale Owen, who died in 2014.
Maietta, however, says she did not make that pledge, saying she offered a bequest of an unspecified amount to be paid to the college when she died, the report said.
The museum was founded in 21160 on the death of Viscount Richard Fitzwilliam, with a bequest of his collection of 21376,21451 books, 2130 albums of prints and 21789 illuminated manuscripts.
For most of its existence, the trust relied solely on the initial gift from Rhodes, he said, but now that bequest pays for less than half the program's annual costs.
Despite having rejected an outright bequest of Hilma's legacy, the Moderna Museet has been instrumental in conserving the collection and has recently committed to maintaining her presence in its galleries.
Mr. Carpenter's initial goal was to make a better Snurfer, employing a small staff in a converted barn in Londonderry, Vt., and drawing on a $150,000 bequest from his grandmother.
The suit further alleges that the hospital's Body Bequest Program arrangement with Wayne State's medical school was ending around that time, and that Harper-Hutzel didn't inform Brown of this.
The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles has received a $525,000 bequest from the estate of the late Setsuko Oka, a museum member who passed away in October 2017.
The Pulitzer board also recognized The Capital Gazette of Annapolis, Md., where five employees were killed in a shooting in June, with a special citation that included a $100,000 bequest.
The Fitzwilliam Museum acquired Sir Alfred Gilbert's marble portrait of Queen Victoria thanks to a recent bequest to the museum and a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF).
Universities and medical institutions training surgeons or conducting research use dead bodies through what's called an "anatomy bequest program," where the arrangements are typically started while the person is still alive.
THE CLOSER And finally … One of the most generous announcements in Washington on Monday was the late Peggy Cooper Cafritz's bequest to the city's celebrated Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
This past Friday, November 21819, the Met installed a selection of works from Wrightsman's bequest to pay tribute to her immense contribution to the Met's collection in three of its galleries.
The core of this new presentation consists of 17533 bamboo works from the Abbeys' gift, joined by nearly two dozen remaining in their collection and a handful from the Moore bequest.
Turner only sold one — the "Whalers" now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acquired 120 years ago — and the rest went to Tate through a bequest upon his death in 1851.
This means you can transfer more than $11 million, either as a gift while you're alive or as a bequest after death, without having the amount subjected to a 40 percent tax.
MAPPLETHORPE A two-part, yearlong exhibition, concentrating on a large bequest from this iconic photographer's foundation, ranging from early Polaroids, collages and mixed-media constructions to his nudes and self-portraits. Jan.
In an 1846 salted print by Calvert Richard Jones (part of a 2012 bequest to the Met from Maurice Sendak!), the Duomo of Milan towers grandly beside a line of shadowed homes.
Funding for the acquisition comes from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund; Nion T. McEvoy, chair of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's commission; and gifts made in McEvoy's honor by his fellow commissioners.
Fiercely loyal to the Empire, believing that it saved them, he and his fellow Noghri commandos carried out assassinations and other missions at the bequest of Darth Vader, and later, Grand Admiral Thrawn.
The award, given in honor of the five people that lost their lives from the deadly shooting attack at the news company last year, comes with a $100,000 bequest by the Pulitzer Board.
If you want to provide a bequest to your heirs by allowing them to sell your home upon your death, a reverse mortgage can wipe out much of the equity in your home.
Last week, the Met announced that Wrightsman left it with one last sizeable gift: a bequest of $19886 million in cash and more than 21780 paintings, drawings, decorative art objects, and rare books.
The Irving bequest, the largest financial gift to the Met in recent history, will establish an unrestricted art acquisitions endowment fund, as well as several endowment funds for the department of Asian Art.
I don't think in terms of dollars, although it's substantial enough for me to have written the collection into my will as a bequest to the Leslie-Lohman, along with a $500,000 endowment.
The baskets they are giving the Met complement the Moore bequest by being almost entirely from the 21890th and 21958st centuries — nearly half of the more than 50 artists represented are still alive.
That's how much you can transfer to others, either as a gift during your life or as a bequest after your death, without having the amount subjected to the 40 percent federal estate tax.
When an artist knows he or she is dying, the last work that they put into the world comes to be something that is at once a bequest, a memorial and a breakup letter.
By knowing that people are thinking of leaving it money, a nonprofit organization can cultivate relationships with them, and ensure that the prospective donors are confident their bequest would go to a worthy cause.
The national literacy rate on our founders' precious bequest must be so low that we the people are allowing the most powerful person in the world to turn a living document into fake news.
Before Ms. Fichtenbaum died last summer, she stipulated in her will that the museum could choose works from her collection after her death, allowing it to curate the bequest and strengthen parts of its holdings.
Of particular note were the similarities in the internal cuts between the heads Reuters purchased and the head found in Pennsylvania, said Angela McArthur, who leads the anatomical bequest program at the University of Minnesota.
In Anglo-American legal parlance, "Blackacre" is a standard placeholder used to denote a fictional piece of land, often a bequest, much as the term "John Doe" is used to indicate a fictional or anonymous individual.
"The McDermotts' generous bequest was of such a transformative magnitude that we knew we would have to reimagine the entire presentation of European art in our galleries," said the DMA's Director, Agustín Arteaga, in a statement.
"The Wrightsman bequest is the culmination of a half century of giving that has transformed the collection of Old Master paintings, taking it in totally new directions," said Keith Christiansen, the Met's chairman of European paintings.
His children, obedient but dim Daniel and rebellious but brilliant Nina, are summoned to his lawyer's office for a Lear-like premortem division of his estate, wherein Nina does not get the one bequest she wants.
But when it comes to a charitable bequest — money that is sitting in a private foundation or a public charity like a donor-advised fund and must be given away — transferring those family values can be trickier.
Included in the bequest is the usual creepy housekeeper (introduced in familiar jump-scare fashion), a book on Satanism, and villagers who eye her with the shifty hostility of their counterparts in many a previous horror movie.
The will had set aside $2 million to underwrite scholarships for the grandchildren, and it gave his costumes and other household effects to the six children he recognized, a bequest thought to be worth perhaps another $2 million.
It was delivered to the Dumont School District's Board of Education in New Jersey this year at the bequest of Genevieve Via Cava, a former special needs teacher, seven years after she died at the age of 89.
While all of the Abbey bamboo artists are known, the names of those represented in the Moore bequest are not, except Hayakawa Shokosai I (1815-1897), thought to be the first Japanese bamboo master to sign his works.
A philanthropist who quit the board of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum to protest the termination of its director said on Thursday that she was also rescinding her $3 million bequest to the Upper East Side institution.
Yet Mr. Buffett, the most renowned investor of our time, established a trust for his wife that puts 271 percent of his bequest in short-term government bonds with the remainder invested in a broad-based stock index fund.
As part of the agreement the painting will be displayed on a rotating basis in France and at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, where the artwork arrived as part of a bequest in 2000.
Many are surprised to learn that their country has the highest murder and suicide rates in the EU. Still, there are signs that Lithuania's next generation, or what remains of it after emigration, is reinventing its precious bequest of sovereignty.
On the other hand, a bequest from the will of a deceased American can go directly to the foreign charity and still provide a tax benefit to the estate, but determining the value of the art object is a complicated process.
"I have willed a substantial amount of money to the museum — not in the same league as the trustees, but a lot for me — and I am angry enough at these trumped-up charges to change the bequest," Ms. Hirst said.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be sleeping well tonight after receiving a donation of nearly 3,000 quilts, a bequest of the collection of art scholar and renowned collector Eli Leon.
For instance, instead of allocating 25% to housing, allocate a portion of your retirement income to funding necessities (housing, transportation, personal items, entertainment and taxes), then fund health care expenses, then emergencies, then fun or what some call discretionary, and lastly bequest.
An unusual bequest from Fernande of old photos taken by their mother, Margot, during the Nazi occupation of Nice, leads him to plan a trip to the city of his birth to uncover their provenance—and learn more about his family's wartime past.
There is no such figure in "Beanpole," and instead of recycling platitudes about men and the righteousness of violence, this movie tells a tough, unsparing story about war trauma, which seeps into souls and bodies and inevitably becomes — Balagov suggests — a generational bequest.
"I have willed a substantial amount of money to the museum — not in the same league as the trustees, but a lot for me — and I am angry enough at these trumped-up charges to change the bequest," she told the Times.
To handle the cervical spine and two heads safely, legally and ethically, the news agency enlisted the guidance and assistance of one of America's foremost experts on body donation: Angela McArthur, who directs the anatomy bequest program at the University of Minnesota.
The museum has over 1,200 pieces by Matisse, many the result of a 1949 bequest by the Baltimore sisters and collectors Claribel and Etta Cone, who had amassed some 500 of his works, including the famous "Blue Nude" (1907) and "Large Reclining Nude" (1935).
After Doctor Who, she did a lot of theater, including A Bequest to the Nation, Not in Front of the Parents, and The Wizard of Oz, per her website, and kept up a steady stream of television and stage appearances through for the rest of her career.
Mr. Rinder will be stepping down from his position at the Berkeley museum in March, but Catherine Koshland, the president of the museum's board and the University of California, Berkeley's vice chancellor for undergraduate education, said that his departure would not affect the care of the bequest.
"To O'Neill she attributes the money to a bequest from a childless aunt who raised her," Arthur and Barbara Gelb write in the early pages of "By Women Possessed," their third and final O'Neill biography, a juicy and entertaining volume that brims with such offstage theatrics.
To the Editor: Re "When Museums Give Up Their Buried Treasures" (front page, March 11): I am probably not the only museum director who groans every time the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with its collection of more than two million objects, announces its latest gift or bequest.
But Pyongyang's insecurity has intensified even more under Kim, who, since coming to power in 2012, declared his father's bequest of a nuclear program as a crowning achievement, changed the constitution to declare North Korea a nuclear state, and declared nuclear and economic development as his twin priorities.
In real life, Mr. Roth has designated the library, which he has called his home away from home, as the repository for his own book collection, a bequest that will be announced here on Thursday evening at the inaugural Philip Roth Lecture, to be delivered by Zadie Smith.
The stone figure of Cecil Rhodes, the mining magnate who gave his name to the southern African state of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, has graced the facade of Oriel College since before World War I. Rhodes, who lived from 1853 to 1902, left this college, his alma mater, a substantial bequest.
Almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists — including more than 500 by Rosie Lee Tompkins, a quilt maker whose formally inventive work has helped elevate the standing of the discipline in the art world — are heading to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest by Eli Leon.
She had also been secretary-treasurer of the Berger-Marks Foundation since it was formed in 1996 to honor Edna Berger, a pioneering organizer for the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America, through a bequest from her husband, Gerald Marks, a musician who wrote, among other songs, "All of Me" with Seymour Simons.
" Though Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. had been proud of his birth name ("perfect for the prettiest and greatest heavyweight champion of all time"), he agreed without hesitation to change it to a Muslim name at the bequest of the head of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad — initially "Cassius X," later "Muhammad Ali.
Drawn from Sendak's bequest to the Morgan of his theatrical drawings and organized by Rachel Federman, an assistant curator at the museum, the succinct yet bountiful exhibition offers an overview of a dense, underappreciated period in this artist's career, undertaken with his most celebrated books well in the past and his life in uneasy transition.
And now, in what might be described as a bit of unexpected municipal karma, the museum has announced that it is the benefactor of a $1.7 million bequest by the estate of a retired schoolteacher and museum volunteer, money that will be used to acquire contemporary painting and sculpture and to shore up the museum's operating endowment.
Then there is the matter of Snape's death, where she sacrifices herself for the good of Hogwarts: Snape nobly participates in a pre-arranged plot with Dumbledore, in which she kills the Headmaster at his bequest, allowing her students and closest colleagues to believe that she had secretly remained a servant to Lord Voldemort her entire life.
The Cleveland Orchestra, which is celebrating its own centennial this season, announced a $15 million gift this week; the Detroit Symphony Orchestra announced its own $15 million gift last month; the small Albany Symphony recently received a $7 million bequest; and the Kansas City Symphony announced that it had raised $55 million to more than double its endowment.
Featuring 80 pieces (clothing and accessories) from what the museum calls "one of the greatest private collections of 20th-century fashion," most of which are from an extraordinary 165-piece bequest by Ms. Schreier to the Met for its 150th anniversary, the exhibition is, more than anything else, the reflection of one woman's love affair with fashion.
Since most other assets that would be transferred to your heirs through your will or trust at your death are not subject to income tax at ordinary income rates and, in fact, will receive a stepped-up basis at your death, there is often a substantial tax benefit to leaving a gift to charity out of your IRA in place of a bequest.
The three charities — the Natural Resources Defense Council, Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children Federation — with the State of New York joining them, contend that since the elder Ms. Anderson did not live 30 days after Ms. Morris died, she did not fulfill the requirement of the bequest and so what was meant for her goes to the charities.
On Wednesday, the museum announced that the arts benefactor and grande dame of New York society has left more than 375 works to the Met in a bequest that includes gifts to the departments of Drawings and Prints, European Paintings, and European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, as well as to the Department of Asian Art, the Department of Islamic Art and the Watson Library.

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