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The intent of the testator when making the will. … [Read more...] about TESTAMENTARY INTENT

To be tested is to hear the teste, (g. t.) … [Read more...] about TESTED

A trust that is created by a will and takes effect upon the death of the testator. … [Read more...] about TESTAMENTARY TRUST

Lat. Witnesses. Testes, trial per. A trial had before a judge without the intervention of a jury, in which the judge is left to form in his own breast his sentence upon the credit of the witnesses examined; but this mode of trial, although it was common in the civil law, was seldom resorted to in the practice of the common law, but it is now becoming common when each party … [Read more...] about TESTES

Engl. law. A roll, catalogue or survey of lands, belonging either to a single person or a town, in which are stated the quantity of, acres, the names of the tenants, and the like. 2. By the ecclesiastical law an inquiry is directed to be made from time to time, of the temporal rights of the clergyman of every parish, and to be returned into the registry of the bishop: this … [Read more...] about TERRIER