Testamentary Definition

adjective

(law) Of or pertaining to a will or testament.

Although such letter shall not be interpreted as a testamentary writing, I request that my beneficiaries and executor carry out the requests made in the letter.
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Origin of Testamentary

  • Borrowing from Latin testāmentārius ("of or belonging to wills").

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Testamentary Sentence Examples

  • This right and duty became a jurisdiction in all testamentary causes.

  • He had pledged himself to respect the testamentary disposition of Henry VIII.

  • Testamentary causes at first were subject to the concurrent jurisdiction of the spiritual and secular courts.

  • The bishop of London was treated as the diocesan bishop of the colonists in North America; and in order to provide for testamentary and matrimonial jurisdiction it was usual in the letters patent appointing the governor of a colony to name him ordinary.

  • The testamentary jurisdiction disappeared (as already stated) in France.

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