codicil

How To Use codicil In A Sentence

• Although in principle, testaments and codicils need not differ in making bequests to different groups of legatees, in fact we observe such differences.
• But the cause of our quarrel is somewhat unusual, and I can be neither so practical nor so vulgar as to set about making codicils. The Kempton-Wace Letters
• Ryan explains the codicil in Alex's will and tries to make Bianca understand that the money is supposed to go to someone else.
• I am seriously thinking however that I ought to add a codicil to my will that all my papers should be incinerated after my demise.
• A will nominating no heir, but only legatees, i.e. persons who will receive certain objects or rights, is called a codicil.
• There is no doubt the initial fault lies with the testator and the wording of his codicil.
• Count ([Greek: komês]; comes; companion), but having not yet laid aside his belt of office, nor received the honour of admission to the palace, or what they call brevet-rank (_codicilli vacantes_), which honour at the end of his term of service is given to him, and to none of the other chiefs of departments [126]. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
• She add a codicil to her will just before she die.
• One of these days, over the Taiwan Straits or Central Asia, we will learn that eternal air superiority is not guaranteed to the United States as some kind of codicil to Manifest Destiny. Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
• But with a telling codicil detailing in full what his compensation entitlement would be if he should happen to resign within six months.