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His will is his way
Answer for the clue "His will is his way ", 8 letters:
testator
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who makes a will [syn: testate ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Testator \Tes*ta"tor\, n. [L.: cf. F. testateur.] (Law) A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) One who dies having made a legally valid will.
Usage examples of testator.
As it is, knowing that the testator was a gentleman of the highest intelligence and acumen, and that he has absolutely no relations living to whom he could have confided the guardianship of the child, we do not feel justified in taking this course.
But the names of the legatee, executrix, testator, names of witnesses and their addresses were completely obliterated.
In many instances, the sum originally devised for the sustentation of a grave or monument is not sufficient, in the present day, to remunerate residents in London for looking after it, and the money has been transferred to the parish in which the testator lies, and has become the perquisite of the sexton.
His favourite one now was to examine judicially the wills of men who had just died and had left him no money: he would then give evidence of the benefits that the testators had received from him and declare that they had been either ungrateful or of unsound mind at the time of drawing their wills and that he preferred to think that they had been of unsound mind.
They shackled the hands of testators, who endangered the salvation of coroneted boys by having sanction to bequeath vast wealth in bulk.
But when a similar joinder of times was allowed between a legatee or devisee (legatarius) and his testator, the same explanation was offered.
The Falcidian law became useless: for if the testator had a mind to favor his heir, the latter had no need of the Falcidian law.
Baron Parke, after laying down that in general a party is not required to make profert of an instrument to the possession of which he is not entitled, says that there is an exception "in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent.
But if, for instance, a house should catch on fire and the testator should perish in the flames, it would be generally presumed that the will was burned up at the same time and, if there could be proof that it was still in effect at the time of the fire and the testator's death, then the contents could be established by secondary evidence.