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LEGACY, DEMONSTRATIVE. A demonstrative legacy is a bequest of a certain sum of money; intended for the legatee at all events, with a fund particularly referred to for its payment; so that if the estate be not the testator's property at his death, the legacy will not fail: but be payable out of general assets. 1 Rop. Leg. 153; Lownd. Leg 85; Swinb. 485; Ward on Leg. 370.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Those tapes (not these ones) As can be seen in (9), the demonstrative adjectives this, that, those, and these contain semantic components related to orientation.

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In fact, in Chapter 6, early on in the book, the following points are treated and with high success: The Possessive Adjectives, Articles with Family Names, Special Use of the Present, Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns, and Interrogative Adjectives and Pronouns.

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Some lexical items as well as pronouns and demonstrative adjectives have been also written in Italics because they too can be understood only in a referential context, as when "that structure" can be understood only with reference to "an organization".