TESTED

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

In practice. The concluding clause, commencing with the word "Witness," etc. A writ which bears the teste is sometimes said to be tested. "Teste" is a word commonly used in the last part of every writ, wherein the date is contained, beginning with the words, "Teste meipso," meaning the sovereign, if the writ be an original writ, or be issued in the name of the sovereign; but, … [Read more...] about TESTE OF A WRIT

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. … [Read more...] about TESTE MEIPSO

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

Latin: In the civil law. Testate; one who has made a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. … [Read more...] about TESTATUS