testate

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For, and in consideration of the said ten thousand dollars I hereby waive all claims to any further participation in the said estate, and agree that I will not, whether the said Solon Beatty dies testate or intestate, make any claim against the said estate, nor upon Mary Beatty, who, by this advance to me, becomes sole heir to the said estate Bob drew a long breath.

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  1. adjective Having made a legally valid will before death.

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  • This returning to their root is what we call testate of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The authors analyzed plant macrofossils, peat humification and testate amoebae to reconstruct a proxy climate record spanning the last 7500 years of an ombrotrophic bog, Temple Hill Moss, in southeast Scotland. —  New Content on CO2 Science
  • For one thing, Surrogate Eugene E. Peckham decided to rely upon a presumption in favor of testate distribution and against intestacy. —  New York Probate & Estate Litigation Blog
  • Shariah courts: Brown's government has begun institutionalizing the practice of separate legal systems for Muslims with the proliferation of "family law" courts where women can be treated, in accordance with Shariah, as second-class citizens - less-than-equal to male Muslims and entitled to a fraction of the property due the latter in the adjudication of divorce or testate matters.
  • - Shariah courts: Mr. Brown's government has begun institutionalizing the practice of separate legal systems for Muslims with the proliferation of "family law" courts where women can be treated, in accordance with Shariah, as second-class citizens - less-than-equal to male Muslims and entitled to a fraction of the property due the latter in the adjudication of divorce or testate matters. —  Israpundit
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  1. Middle English, from Latin testātus, past participle of testārī, to make one's will; see testament.

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  1. from Latin testatus, past participle of testari, bear witness, declare, make a last will: see test, v.
 

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