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Wills
disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a. Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act,
Oath
administered and taken in the form and manner following:- The person taking the oath shall hold as New Testament, or, in the case of a Jew, the Old Testament, in his uplifted hand, and shall say or
Confirmation
the executor has been made by the deceased, the appointee is called an executor-nominate and the confirmation a testament testamentor. When the appointment has been made by the Court, the appointee is called an executor-dative, and the
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Peshito
The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament translated from Hebrew also the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament
VerbarHagiographa
The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament comprising Psalms Proverbs Job Canticles Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther Daniel Ezra Nehemiah and Chronicles or that portion of
Douay Bible
of English speaking Roman Catholics done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France The New Testament portion was published at Rheims A D 1582 the Old Testament at Douai A D 1609 10 Various
Institutions
have the power of alienation, and those through whom property may be acquired. Title III. shows how a Testament made in the form prescribed by law, and not invalidated, may be carried into execution, which is done
Pentateuch
The first five books of the Old Testament collectively called also the Law of Moses Book of the Law of Moses etc
Septuagint
A Greek version of the Old Testament so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy or rather of seventy two translators
Bastard
4, c. 22), enables bastards or natural children domiciled in Scotland to dispose of their movable estates by testament or last will in like manner as other persons belonging to that country may do. In England they
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