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legatees

noun

plural of legatee

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a person who has the right to inherit property the couple had no children, so they declared their nephew their only legatee

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The heirs have been fighting for the artwork for decades, though the family chose after World War II not to sue for its return.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The top lot of the evening was an early Wassily Kandinsky painting, Das bunte Leben (1907), which was recently restituted to the heirs of the German Jewish art collector Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann in June 2023.

— News Desk, Artforum, 15 Oct. 2026

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