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  • TESTARI
    Lat In the civil law. To testify; to attest; to declare, publish, or make known a thing before witnesses. To make a will. Calvin.
  • TESTATE
    One who has made a will; one who dies leaving a will.
  • TESTATION
    Witness; evidence.
  • TESTATOR
    One who makes or has made a testament or will; one who dies leaving a will. This term Is borrowed from the civil law. Inst. 2, 14, 5, 6. Testatoris ultima voluntas est perim-plenda secundum veram intentionem suam. Co. Litt 322. The last will of a testator is to be More...
  • TESTATRIX
    A woman who makes a will; a woman who dies leaving a will; a female testator.
  • TESTATUM
    In practice. When a writ of execution has been directed to the sheriff of a county, and he returns that the defendant is not found in his bailiwick, or that he has no goods there, as the case may he, then a second writ reciting this former writ and the More...
  • TESTATUM WRIT
    In practice. A writ containing a testatum clause; such as a testatum capias, a testatum ft. fa., and a testatum ca. sa. See TESTATUM.
  • TESTATUS
    Lat In the civil law. Testate; one who has made a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7.
  • TESTE MEIPSO
    Lat. In old English law and practice. A solemn formula of attestation by the sovereign, used at the conclusion of charters, and other public Instruments, and also of original writs out of chancery. Spelman.
  • TESTED
    To be tested is to hear the teste, (g. t.)
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