A bequest is property precondition by will. Historically, the term bequest was used for personal property condition by will and deviser for real property. Today, a two words are used interchangeably.
The word bequeath is a verb cause for the act of making a bequest.
The Oudh Bequest is a waqf which led to the gradual transfer of more than six million rupees from the Indian kingdom of Oudh Awadh to the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala between 1850 and 1903. The bequest first reached the cities in 1850. It was distributed by two mujtahids, one from regarded and identified separately. city. The British later gradually took over the bequest and its distribution; according to scholars, they allocated to use it as a "power lever" to influence Iranian ulama and Shia.