testatrix

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  1. noun A woman who has made a legally valid will before death.

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  • Taking this route of supposition to the next level, the court also surmised that the testatrix had relied on her holographic will to be admissible to probate. —  New York Probate & Estate Litigation Blog
  • Her father can afford his daughter a capacity_; and I beg she may have one immediately, cost what it may CCCXII.--SIGN OF BEING CRACKED IN a cause respecting a will, evidence was given to prove the testatrix, an apothecary's widow, a lunatic; amongst other things, it was deposed that she had swept a quantity of pots, lotions, potions, &c.;, into the street as rubbish. —  The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
  • "In effecting her purposes," the testatrix was viewed as having "brought some of the legal interests which she created within the control of one State by selecting a trustee there, and others within the control of the other State, by making her domicile there." —  The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
  • Revoked by Marriage Every Will is revoked by the subsequent marriage of the testator or testatrix, except a will made in the exercise of a power of appointment, when the property appointed thereby would not, in default of appointment, pass to the heir, executor, or administrator, or next of kin of the testator or testatrix 1593. —  Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby
  • The first was introduced by a preamble setting forth that the testatrix was lineally descended from the ancient house of Ellangowan, her respected great-grandfather, Andrew Bertram, first of Singleside, of happy memory, having been second son to Allan Bertram, fifteenth Baron of Ellangowan. —  Guy Mannering — Complete
 

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  1. Latin, feminine of testātor, testator; see testator.

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  1. = French testatrice = Italian testatrice, from Late Latin testatrix, feminine of Latin testator, one who makes a will: see testator.
 

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/tɛsˈteɪtrɪks/
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