How To Use Testator In A Sentence
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I conceive that the promise would not be binding for want of a previous request by the testator.
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Nobody has any statutory power to appoint an executor or administrator of a will, except a testator, sir.
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A very great one," replied Parlamente, "when the testator is in his sound senses, and not raving.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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It was admitted, that in case the guardians should misbehave, the Court might interpose, upon a presumption, that the testator himself would not have entrusted the guardians with this power, had he foreseen they would have abused it.
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But if the testator himself manumits him in his lifetime, he may use his own discretion about acceptance; for he is not
The Institutes of Justinian
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In some cases, no doubt, the exclusion of the testator's immediate family from a Will may be evidence of an unsound mind, or of lack of understanding or approval.
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An unknown proportion of the bequests of land in the Bedfordshire wills may refer to property which was devisable by custom: the Bedfordshire testators were not scrupulous about recording the tenure of the property they bequeathed.
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It, also, is a duty to take care to ensure that effect is given to the testator's testamentary intentions.
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The testator is a man of ample means, without any responsibilities to fetter his movements, and has been in the constant habit of traveling, often into remote and distant regions.
The Eye of Osiris
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He enclosed a copy of the will, the original conveyance to the testator and the two deeds of gift.
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When another person's slave is instituted heir, if he continues in the same condition he must have the order of his master to accept; if alienated by him in the testator's lifetime, or after the testator's death but before acceptance, he must have the order of the alienee to accept; finally, if manumitted in the testator's lifetime, or after the testator's death but before acceptance, he may accept or not at his own discretion.
The Institutes of Justinian
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The question is whether the court is satisfied that the contents do truly represent the testator's testamentary intentions.
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He here condescended in the presence of his disciples to publish his last will and testament, and (which many a testator is shy of) lets them know what legacies he had left them, and how well they were secured, that they might have strong consolation.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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But, by making his trustees the sole judges of a question a testator does not entirely exclude recourse to the court by persons aggrieved by the trustees' decision.
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There is no doubt the initial fault lies with the testator and the wording of his codicil.
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Page until the widow's death, the legatees or remaindermen will get precisely the same time intended by the testator, and so they cannot complain.
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He was met with the response that the testator was a mariner at sea (in fact, he was a pilot on the Manchester ship canal).
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The problem in modern times usually does not arise because most testators who have infant children appoint an executor and also appoint the executor guardian.
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He can certainly be appointed as executor of an estate by a testator who nominates him as such in a will.
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I conceive that the promise would not be binding for want of a previous request by the testator.
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{198} In a note on the Will, Mr. Maddison says, “The testator was the second son of Robert Dighton (of St.rton), by his wife, Joyce St. Paul (a lady of another very old and well-connected county family).”
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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Article 20 A testator may revoke or alter a will he previously made.
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A testator may make a valid will wholly by his or her own handwriting and signature, without formality, and without the presence, attestation or signature of a witness.
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At the time of deciding whether the option is a valid testamentary provision, contract principles cannot be applicable since the testator's intentions are the only relevant matter.
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By investing flat out for income at a time of hyperinflation, the trustees knowingly dissipated the corpus of the testator's estate, and thus did violence to his stated wishes and gypped the remaindermen.
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He three times drafted a codicil and read it to the testator.
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In mutual wills cases they are a testator, a testatrix and an intended beneficiary or class of beneficiaries.
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He has been called upon to set aside a will because it is claimed the testator was hoodooed, and as a result changed his will.
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It is therefore, at least, not improbable that the testator was a native of Lincolnshire.
Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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; Edward Skipwith of Ketsby, gent, for lx. sheep xxvvijli.; and if he refuse the sheepe, to pay to my executrix xls., which the Testator payde for sommering them: Edward Skipwith to be accomptable for the wool of the sayde sheepe for this last year, but
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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Article 20 A testator may revoke or alter will he previously made.
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A personal representative has an action of account as the testator or intestate might have had if he or she had lived.
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What, one might ask, about bequests in favour of corporations or instructions to build the testator a monument?
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Rather, it adds a new element, which is that the testator's son alone is to undertake liability.
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A will is revoked by the subsequent marriage of the testator.
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All that happened was that the solicitor did nothing at all for a period of time, with the result that the testator died before his new testamentary intentions could be implemented in place of the old.
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Another obvious gender difference was in the marital status of the testators: while male testators were single, married, and widowed, most women's testamentary documents, at least those that have survived, were written by widows. 50 Most of these were disposing of relatively small estates, often in exchange for support in their old age, and they tended to be less preoccupied with maintaining properties in the patriline, although this may simply have been a reflection of the lesser significance of the properties they were transferring.
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Testaments were vitiated in several ways: nullum, void from the beginning, where there was a defect in the institution of the heir or incapacity in the testator; injustum, not legally executed and hence void; ruptum, by revocation or by the agnation of a posthumous child, either natural or civil; irruptum, where the testator had lost the civil status necessary for testation; destitutum, where the heir defaulted because dead or unwilling, or upon failure of the condition; recissum, as the consequence of a legal attack upon an undutiful will.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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He can certainly be appointed as executor of an estate by a testator who nominates him as such in a will.
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A solicitor was instructed to draw up a new will for the testator.
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During the period when the funds were employed in conformity with the testator's design, the authorities, in their wisdom, ignored limitations of age, birth, and neighbourhood, and thus any member of the University, sophist or questionist, bachelor or master, was entitled to a share of the benefit.
The Customs of Old England
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Inasmuch as the disinherison or omission by parents of their children has generally no good reason, those children who complain that they have been wrongfully disinherited or passed over have been allowed to bring an action impeaching the will as unduteous, under the pretext that the testator was of unsound mind at the time of its execution.
The Institutes of Justinian
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Roger had opened the document to its final pages where Adam's characteristic scrawl Adam Berendt had been signed above testator.
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In my experience, actual wills have been drawn up bequeathing property to persons, when the testator (person making the will) did not have ownership of the property, and thus did not have the right to give the property to anyone.
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Under the terms of clause 3 he must be appointed by the executors, and I propose to make orders reinstituting this procedure which the testator laid down rather than ordering an inquiry.
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If the executors do not appear, but the claimant can prove by inquest that the testator bequeathed him the tenement, it shall be delivered to him.
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The Author has had recourse to every means within his reach to assure himself of the genuineness of this document, and to ascertain (p. 378) that the testator was the William Gascoyne [339] who was Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
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Mr. Pascu, the applicant, asserts that the testator had testamentary capacity at the time the will was drafted.
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He can certainly be appointed as executor of an estate by a testator who nominates him as such in a will.
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Her Baltimore ancestor's will is extant, has been examined by Old Mortality's great-grandson, and announces in a kind of preamble that the testator was a native of Donegal; his Christian name was William ( "Notes and Queries," Fourth Series, vol.vii. p. 219, and Fifth Series, August, 1874).
Old Mortality, Volume 1.
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A text of Modestinus also ends abruptly with the remark that the judge will ensure that the testator's instructions are enforced.
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The addressee is Titius, heir to a share of the testator's estate.
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Save in the case of those rash testators who make their own wills, the proper transmission of property from one generation to the next is dependent upon the due discharge by solicitors of their duties.
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Supposing then that the testator died within a year, but that a condition, subject to which the heir was instituted, was not fulfilled within the year, would it be feigned that the testator was a soldier at the date of his decease, and the testament consequently upheld? and this question we answer in the affirmative.
The Institutes of Justinian
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A testator may revoke or alter a will he previously made.
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The Statute of Wills 1540 gave testators power to create future legal estates by their wills.
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Here, then, the doubts about precatory words are reasonable doubts whether they clearly express an intention on the part of a testator.
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Because a testator or the settlor of a trust is not a state actor, there are no constitutional dimensions to his choice of beneficiaries.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Enforcing Trusts That Exclude Family Members Who Marry Non-Jews:
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In principle, similarly, a testator should not be permitted to render his dependants' statutory rights nugatory by covenants to make bequests by will.
