testator's intention (will)

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• will — 1 n 1: the desire, inclination, or choice of a person or group 2: the faculty of wishing, choosing, desiring, or intending 3: a legal declaration of a person s wishes regarding the disposal of his or her property after death; esp: a formally… …   Law dictionary

• will — n Will, volition, conation can all refer to the power or act of making or effecting a choice or decision. Will applies not only to this power or act but also to the complex of rational and irrational, conscious and unconscious forces within a… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• will — will1 /wil/, auxiliary v. and v., pres. sing. 1st pers. will, 2nd will or (Archaic) wilt, 3rd will, pres. pl. will; past sing. 1st pers. would, 2nd …   Universalium

• will — Volition, purpose; desire. An instrument by which a person makes a disposition of his property, to take effect after his decease. Barney v Hayes, 11 Mont 571, 29 P 282. An instrument executed by a competent person, in the manner prescribed by… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• intention of testator — The intention manifested in the terms of the will, not necessarily the intention existing in the mind of the testator. Yeates v Yeates, 179 Ark 543, 16 SW2d 996, 65 ALR 466 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• implied revocation of will — A revocation by operation of law consequent to certain important changes in the family or domestic relations of the testator, such as marriage or the birth of a child after the making of the will, or changes involving the property of the testator …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• revocation of will — The annulment of a will, making it speak for nought in whole or in part, by a clause in a later valid will by an inconsistent disposition of property in a later valid will or codicil, or by tearing, cutting, burning, obliterating, erasing and… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• frustration of ancestral or testamentary intention — The violation by heir, devisee, or legatee of a promise to the testator to hold an inheritance, device, or legacy, for another or to give it to another, upon which the testator relied in the making or changing of his will in order to favor such… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• publication of will — The communication by the testator to the attesting witnesses at the time they attest of his intention that the instrument which they are called upon to attest shall take effect as his will. 57 Am J1st Wills § 283 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• WILLS — (Heb. צַוָּאָה). A will is a person s disposition of his property in favor of another in such manner that the testator retains the property or his rights to it until his death. There are three different forms of wills, each governed by different… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Legal history of wills — Wills in the Ancient WorldThe will, if not purely Roman in origin, at least owes to Roman law its complete development, a development which in most European countries was greatly aided at a later period by ecclesiastics versed in Roman law. In… …   Wikipedia