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Legacies
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09115a.htmIn its most restricted sense, by a pious legacy or bequest (legatum pium) is understood, the assigning, by a last will, of a particular thing forming part of an estate, to a church or an ecclesiastical institution.
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