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Teste

Teste \Tes"te\, n. [So called fr. L. teste, abl. of testis a witness, because this was formerly the initial word in the clause.] (Law)

  1. A witness.

  2. The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said of a writ, deed, or the like.
    --Burrill.

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teste

n. 1 (context legal English) A witness. 2 The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; said of a writ, deed, etc.

Usage examples of "teste".

More powder still came from Arcachon and from the villages of Le Teste, Pyla and Le Moulleau.

Besides, Sharpe could see that the French were dreadfully outnumbered, outnumbered as heavily as he had been at the Teste de Buch.

He had commanded the Teste de Buch fort and, day after day, year after year, he had watched the empty sea and thought the war was passing him by until, in the very last weeks of the fighting, the British Riflemen had come from the landward side to bring horror to his small command.

There, safe behind the guns of the Teste de Buch fort, the Thuella was beached for repairs.

The fortress of Teste de Buch, Wigram continued, was to be captured by a combined naval and Army force.

The chart showed the great Basin of Arcachon with its narrow entrance channel, and marked the fortress of Teste de Buch on the eastern bank of that channel.

He wondered how Bampfylde proposed crossing the ditches and walls of the Teste de Buch without scaling-ladders, then dismissed the problem as irrelevant now.

In the Teste de Buch Commandant Henri Lassan told his beads, yet somehow could not shift from his thoughts a line from an essay by Montaigne that he had read the night before.

From this landward side the Teste de Buch fort looked hardly formidable.

The guns of the Teste de Buch fired shot weighing thirty-six pounds, each shot propelled by ten pounds and two ounces of black powder.

Lassan wondered what had happened to Killick, but that speculation was as useless as wondering how the Teste de Buch had fallen.

Bampfylde believed would have happened if Major Sharpe had not disobeyed his orders and assaulted the Teste de Buch instead of marching inland.

He had already sequestered the French tricolour that had flown over the Teste de Buch, but his Midshipman had so far failed to find the American ensign.

Own Volunteers, whom we had Conveyed to the Teste de Buch, together with a small Force of soldiery, for Operations in the interior.

Fog writhed about the low walls of the Teste de Buch, utterly obscuring the ramparts from the courtyard where Sharpe, in the dawn, paraded his Riflemen.