universal legacy

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
UNIVERSAL LEGACY. A term used among civilians. An universal legacy is a 
testamentary disposition, by which the testator gives to one or several 
persons the whole of the property which he leaves at his decease. Civil Code 
of Lo. art. 1599; Code Civ. art. 1003; Poth. Donations testamentaires, c. 2, 
sect. 1, Sec. 2. 
    

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