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  • Collins never got spin to carrying a fair duplicate of a will made, substantially given of promptness occasioned by a earnest of a testator's condition, nonetheless this attorney had a approach of permitting much-corrected draft wills to stand (@ Schoenbaum 242-6).

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • Collins never got spin to carrying a fair duplicate of a will made, substantially given of promptness occasioned by a earnest of a testator's condition, nonetheless this attorney had a approach of permitting much-corrected draft wills to stand (@ Schoenbaum 242-6).

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • When leaving legacies to charity it is important to ensure that the testator's wishes are clearly understood by the will writer.

    What's the best way to leave a legacy in a will for conservation causes? 2010

  • As long as the testator's instructions are properly understood by the will draftsperson and the will is accurately drafted, there should be no problem with leaving legacies to charity if that is what the testator wants.

    What's the best way to leave a legacy in a will for conservation causes? 2010

  • The rule against perpetuities is the rule that any interest given in a will must vest or fail to vest within 21 years of the death of a life in being at the time of the testator's death.

    Define That Term #78 2006

  • Under family-provision legislation a testator's moral responsibility to provide for his dependants had be­come a legal obligation in 1938.

    Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002

  • It began by expressing the testator's great desire that his property might descend in his own family, and that the house might be held and inhabited by someone bearing the name of Vavasor.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • "This will," Mr. Penhallow said, "signed by witnesses dead or absent from this place, makes a disposition of the testator's property in some respects similar to that of the previous one, but with a single change, which proves to be of very great importance."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

  • It was, however, suggested, in a well-written anonymous article which appeared in the village paper, that it was desirable to follow the general lead of the testator's apparent preference.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

  • But the will was conditional; each of the legatees was to place five pounds in the testator's coffin.

    More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

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