practice. The teste of a writ is the concluding clause, commencing with the word witness 2. The act of congress of May 8, 1792, directs that all writs and process issuing from the supreme or a circuit court, shall bear teste of the chief justice of the supreme court, or if that office be vacant, of the associate justice next in precedence; and that all writs or process issuing … [Read more...] about TESTE
TESTAMENTARY TRUST
A trust that is created by a will and takes effect upon the death of the testator. … [Read more...] about TESTAMENTARY TRUST
TESTATUS
Latin: In the civil law. Testate; one who has made a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. … [Read more...] about TESTATUS
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 sheriff's answer to the same, may be directed to the sheriff of some other county wherein the defendant is supposed to be, or … [Read more...] about TESTATUM
TESTED
To be tested is to hear the teste, (g. t.) … [Read more...] about TESTED