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Home Dictionary Name: inofficious testamentInofficious testament
Inofficious testament, a will not in a accordance with the testator's natural affection and moral duties....
inofficious
inofficious [Latin inofficiosus (of a will) ignoring the testator's duty to his relatives, from in- not + officiosus kind, dutiful, from officium service, kindness, duty] : of or relating to a disposition of property that has the effect of depriving descendants of the shares of a succession to which they are entitled by law ...
Inofficial
Not official not having official sanction or authority unofficial not according to the forms or ceremony of official business as inofficial intelligence...
testament
testament [Latin testamentum, from testari to call as a witness, make a will, from testis witness] 1 : an act by which a person determines the disposition of his or her property after death [a of property] 2 : will NOTE: A testament was formerly concerned specifically with personal property, as in the phrase last will and testament. Now a will covers both personal and real property and the terms will and testament are generally synonymous, but the phrase lives on. tes·ta·men·ta·ry [tes-tə-men-tə-rē] adj ...
Testament
Testament, a disposition of personal property to take place after the owner's decease, according to his desire and direction. See WILLS.As to the modes of making a testament according to the Civil Law, see Sand. Just.; Cumn. C.L. 117; Maine's Anc. Law.The word 'testament' is derived form 'testatio mentis', it testifies the determination of the mind, Uma Devi Nambiar v. T.C. Sidhan, (2004) 2 SCC 321 (328). [Succession Act, 1925, ss. 57, 58, 59]Means a Will disposing of personal property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1484...
mystic testament
mystic testament : mystic will at will ...
secret testament
secret testament : mystic will at will ...
Cum duo inter se pugnantia reperiuntur in testament ultimum ratum est
Cum duo inter se pugnantia reperiuntur in testament ultimum ratum est [Lat.], Where two clauses in a will are repugnant one to the other, the last in order shall prevail....
Military testament
Military testament. By s. 11 of the (English) Wills Act, 1837, a soldier or sailor on active service may dispose of his personal estate as he might have done before that Act. The (English) Wills (Soldiers and Sailors) Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 58), extends this right to make wills without formalities to realty in the case of the above persons. As t seamen and marines, see also the (English) Navy and Marines (Wills) Acts, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 72) and 1914. See NUNCUPATIVE WILL....
Mutual testaments
Mutual testaments, wills made by two persons who leave their effects reciprocally to the survivor. Either will may be revoked by notice during the joint lives, but the survivor cannot revoke his or her will if the benefit of the other will has been taken, see Stone v. Hoskins 1905, P. 194; In Estate of Heys, 1914, P. 192....
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