someone who makes a will:
The law restricts a testator's freedom to distribute property.
Meaning of testator in English
(Definition of testator from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of testator
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Attitudes varied amongst testators in a single locality, suggesting that this is not simply a reflection of scribal preferences.
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Executors probably acted as part of their responsibility to benefit the soul of a testator, although no grants obtained by them are specifically identified.
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Even where the law admitted free choice on the part of the testator, the eldest son was always preferred.
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If the testator wishes to leave the disposable part to a spouse, he or she must make a will.
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These wills are included in the post-married women's property acts group because the testator could have made changes after the passing of the law.
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However, it does refer, as is evident from the subsequent anaphor his which refers back to the dependent (a testator).
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An associated and similarly striking change concerns testators' relative indifference to burial.
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The status of about a quarter of the testators was not identified.
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Many testators were in their dotage, of course, but a good proportion died young, still apprenticed, perhaps mentioning parents, siblings and, sometimes, a betrothed.
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Nor does the register of names give a lot of help, for it just lists the 47 testators.
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Dissecting the documents she shows their structural components, draws out general trends concerning the age and origins of the testators, and discusses their legal context.
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How far could the wishes of the testator be overridden in the wider public interest?
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Finally, the only beneficiary named by 3 per cent of testators was a spouse (no kinship link).
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Indeed, in most instances, the number and size of the saints possessed by the testator had a direct correlation with the individual's wealth and status.
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The last three cases are unusual in that, although the testators had children of their own, they preferred their estate to be inherited by others.
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