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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 perimplenda secundum veram intentionem suam. Co. Litt 322. The last will of a testator is to be thoroughly fulfilled according to his real intention. … [Read more...] about TESTATOR

The state or condition of dying after making a will, which was valid at the time of testator's death. Opposed to "intestacy." … [Read more...] about TESTACY

A woman who makes a will; a woman who dies leaving a will; a female testator. … [Read more...] about TESTATRIX

A disposition of personal property to take place after the owner's decease, according to his desire and direction. Pluche v. Jones, 54 Fed. 865, 4 C. C. A. 622; Aubert's Appeal, 109 Pa. 447, 1 Atl. 336; Conklin v. Egerton, 21 Wend. (N. T.) 436; Ragsdale v. Booker, 2 Strob. Eq. (S. C.) 34a A testament is the act of last will, clothed with certain solemnities, by which the … [Read more...] about TESTAMENT

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