specific legacy
specific bequest

Specific legacy (or specific bequest) - a testamentary gift of a precisely identifiable object.

After some specific legacies, many of exactly 19 guineas, the main beneficiary of her will was her sister, Louisa.

As a loose organisational term for historians, it implies not much more than a plausible link of parentage in a 'family tree' of groups of rulers; there need be no specific legacy going beyond physical possession.

A specific legacy (or specific bequest) is a testamentary gift of a precisely identifiable object, distinguished from all other things of the same kind - such as, a gift of a particular piece of jewelry.

But the deeper she delves into the struggle between mythic archetypes, the farther she strays from the specific legacy of the Neverwas books and the emotional distress of a man whose childhood secrets have been laid bare to millions.

As the Internet grew and became almost universally accessible in the late 1990s, the need for services such as Tymnet migrated to the Internet style connections, but still had some value in the third world and for specific legacy roles.

What was left after the specific legacies was to be divided between poor religious houses, such as the Barrow Gurney Nunnery, students and teachers at Oxford University, Jewish converts and the poor on the episcopal manors.

As well as his general contribution to the essentials of comic opera, establishing the music as at least as important as the words, Galuppi's (and Goldoni's) more specific legacy to comic opera was the large-scale buffo finale to end the acts.