1737 G. Ogle (title) Of legacy-hunting. The fifth satire of the second book of Horace imitated.
1794 C. Smith 105 To stoop to the pitiful expedient of legacy-hunting.
1890 May 526 Legacy-hunting by this time in the empire had become a positive profession.
2009 J. M. Carlon iii. 126 The Roman fixation on wills led to fear of their falsification or manipulation and to the practice of legacy hunting.