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Criminal law. Evidence. v. t. e. A testator ( / tɛsˈteɪtɔːr /) is a person who has written and executed a last will and testament that is in effect at the time of their death. [1] It is any "person who makes a will." [2]
v. t. e. A pour-over will is a testamentary device wherein the writer of a will creates a trust, and decrees in the will that the property in his or her estate at the time of his or her death shall be distributed to the Trustee of the trust. [1] Such device was always void at English common law, because it was not deemed a binding trust, in ...
A will and testament is a legal document that expresses a person's ( testator) wishes as to how their property ( estate) is to be distributed after their death and as to which person ( executor) is to manage the property until its final distribution. For the distribution (devolution) of property not determined by a will, see inheritance and ...
In civil and property law, hotchpot (sometimes referred to as hotchpotch or the hotchpotch rule) is the blending, combining or offsetting of property (typically gifts) to ensure equality of a later division of property. [1] [2] The Court of Chancery, Plate 22 of Microcosm of London (1808). The name hotch-pot is taken from a kind of pudding, and ...
Trust (law) A trust is a legal relationship in which the owner of property (or any other transferable right) gives it to another person or entity, who must manage and use the property solely for the benefit of another designated person. In the English common law, the party who entrusts the property is known as the "settlor", the party to whom ...
Landed property, tenement of land, especially with respect to an easement ( servitude ). 2 types: praedium dominans - dominant estate ( aka dominant tenement) praedium serviens - servient estate ( aka servient tenement) praeemptio. previous purchase. Right of first refusal. praesumptio.
Words and Phrases Legally Defined is a law dictionary. It contains statutory and judicial definitions of words and phrases. It is one of the two "major" dictionaries of its type (the other being Stroud's ). Both dictionaries have entries not contained in the other. [1] This dictionary is "useful".
The 1778 case of Honora Jenkins's last will and testament is a case in English law dealing with the witnessing of a testator's will.In this case, the testatrix, Honora Jenkins, visited her solicitors' office to sign her will, but it was later recorded how "being asthmatical and the office very hot, she retired to her carriage to execute the will", which was outside the office window.