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codicil
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Codicil \Cod"i*cil\, n. [L. codicillus, dim. of codex: cf. F. codicille. See Code.] (Law) A clause added to a will.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French codicille, from Latin codicillus "a short writing, a small writing tablet," diminutive of codex (genitive codicis), see code (n.).
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) An addition or supplement that explains, modify, or revokes a will or part of one.
WordNet
n. a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will
Wikipedia
Codicil can refer to:
- Codicil (will), subsequent change or modification of terms made and appended to an existing trust or will and testament
- A subsequent change or modification of terms made and appended to an existing constitution or treaty
- Any addition or appendix, such as a corollary to a theorem
- Codicil, a poem by Derek Walcott
A codicil is a testamentary document similar but not necessarily identical to a will. In some jurisdictions, it may serve to amend, rather than replace, a previously executed will. In others, it may serve as an alternative to a will. In still others, there is no recognized distinction between a codicil and a will.
Usage examples of "codicil".
Mrs Mellamphy, you only mentioned the burglary in an attempt to intimidate my husband and myself into offering you a higher price by implying that you might allow the codicil to pass into the hands of our opposites, either by sale or by negligence.
My mother had instantly leapt to the conclusion that he had abducted me and was demanding the codicil in exchange for my return, and this is what had brought on the scene that I had interrupted.
Cautiously I raised the prospect of selling the codicil to Sir Perceval, but my mother became so upset at the idea and talked so incoherently of her father and how such a betrayal would break her heart, that I vowed never to mention it again.
Reluctantly, my mother consented to sell the document-case, and handed it to her, carefully placing the codicil in the pocket she wore beneath her petticoats and in which she carried her pocket-book.
Or if we have to, we will go to Sir Perceval and sell the codicil to him.
I felt a little guilty at not confiding fully in our friend but it seemed prudent to mention the codicil to nobody.
I whispered, for what I had learned of the law from the two gentlemen had convinced me that the codicil could be worth much more to us than anyone would give us for it.
Miss Quilliam, who of course knew nothing of the codicil, listened curiously as we spoke of it and must have wondered as she gathered that it had been the cause of the attack.
And she was surely right that our only reasonable course of action, now that we were in want and danger, was to sell the codicil to the Mompessons.
Mrs Fortisquince to make an offer, that lady said nothing and at that I felt that my suspicions about her interest in the codicil must be ill-founded.
He was delighted that you now wished to sell the codicil and expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the terms proposed.
Do you not understand that the effect of the codicil is that Sir Perceval and his family only possess the estate as long as there is an heir to the original Huffam line?
The codicil means that you and I are the last of the entailed line to the fee simple, so that the Mompessons now only hold a base-fee to the property.
I had revolved the business of the codicil again and again in my mind with the feeling that there was something strange that I had not been able to put my finger upon, I had got nowhere.
Sir Perceval intended to destroy the codicil when he sent you to buy it, then how was it also necessary to his interests to keep me alive?