LEGACY (

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Lat. legatum)  , in English law, some particular thing or things given or left by a testator in his will, to be paid or performed by his executor or administrator . The word is primarily applicable to gifts of personalty or gifts charged upon real estate; but if there is nothing else to which it can passes was domiciled in the United Kingdom . The rate of duty varies from r to ro% according to the relationship between the testator and legatee . As between husband and wife no duty is payable . The duty is payable by the executors and deducted from the legacy unless the testator directs otherwise . Special provisions as to valuation are in force where the gift is of an annuity or is settled on various persons in succession, or the legacy is given in joint tenancy and other cases . In sc me cases the duty is payable by instalments which carry interest at 3% . In various cases legacies are exempt from duty—the more important are gifts to a member of the royal family, specific legacies under £20 (pecuniary legacies under £20 pay duty), legacies of books, prints, &c., given to a body corporate for preservation, not for sale, and legacies given out of an estate the principal value of which is less than £ioo . Further, by the Finance Act 1894, payment of the estate duty thereby created absorbs the 1% duty paid by lineal ancestors or descendants of the deceased' and the duty on a settled legacy, and, lastly, in the event of estate duty being paid on an estate the total value of which is under £r000, no legacy duty is payable . The legacy duty payable in Ireland is now for all practical purposes assimilated to that in Great Britain . The principal statute in that country is an act of 1814 . LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD (1866– ), English poet and critic, was born in Liverpool on the loth of January 1866 .

He started

life in a business office in Liverpool, but abandoned this to turn author . My Lady's Sonnets appeared at Liverpool in 1887, and in 1889 he became for a short time literary secretary to Wilson Barrett . In the same year he published Volumes in Folio, The Book Bills of Narcissus and George Meredith: some Characteristics (new ed., 1900) . He joined the staff of the Star in 1891, and wrote for various papers over the signature of " Logroller." English Poems (1892), R . L . Stevenson and other Poems (1895), a paraphrase (1897) of the Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam, and Odes from the Divan of Hafiz (1903), contained some light, graceful verse, but he is best known by the fantastic prose essays and sketches of Prose Fancies (2 series, 1894–1896), Sleeping Beauty and other Prose Fancies (1900), The Religion of a Literary Man (1893), The Quest of the Golden Girl (1897), The Life Romantic (1901), &c . His first wife, Mildred Lee, died in 1894, and in 1897 he married Julie Norregard, subsequently taking up his residence in the United States . In 1906 he translated, from the Danish, Peter Nansen's Love's Trilogy .