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Definition of testator in English: testatornountɛˈsteɪtəˈtɛsteɪdər Law A person who has made a will or given a legacy. Example sentencesExamples - A testator may make a valid will wholly by his or her own handwriting and signature, without formality, and without the presence, attestation or signature of a witness.
- A personal representative has an action of account as the testator or intestate might have had if he or she had lived.
- But, by making his trustees the sole judges of a question a testator does not entirely exclude recourse to the court by persons aggrieved by the trustees' decision.
- It, also, is a duty to take care to ensure that effect is given to the testator's testamentary intentions.
- He can certainly be appointed as executor of an estate by a testator who nominates him as such in a will.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French testatour, from Latin testator, from the verb testari 'testify'. Definition of testator in US English: testatornounˈtestādərˈtɛsteɪdər Law A person who has made a will or given a legacy. Example sentencesExamples - A personal representative has an action of account as the testator or intestate might have had if he or she had lived.
- It, also, is a duty to take care to ensure that effect is given to the testator's testamentary intentions.
- A testator may make a valid will wholly by his or her own handwriting and signature, without formality, and without the presence, attestation or signature of a witness.
- But, by making his trustees the sole judges of a question a testator does not entirely exclude recourse to the court by persons aggrieved by the trustees' decision.
- He can certainly be appointed as executor of an estate by a testator who nominates him as such in a will.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French testatour, from Latin testator, from the verb testari ‘testify’. |