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A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

One who makes protestation; a protester.

he management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

teration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy. Bouvier. Wharton.

y. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; -- a precaution to guard against later wills extorte…

One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

aining to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. Falcidian law (Civil Law), a law by which a testator was obliged to leave at least a fourth of his estate to the heir. Burrill.

to take effect in consequence of the death of the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or for ether cause. Wharton (Law Dict.).

A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy. Dryden.

The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion. Bouvier.

person libeled. -- Publication of a will (Law), the delivery of a will, as his own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.

feit paper. [U.S.] To publish a will (Law), to acknowledge it before the witnesses as the testator's last will and testament.

, the residuary advantage of an estate. Ayliffe. Residuary clause (Law), that part of the testator's will in which the residue of his estate is disposed of. -- Residuary devise (Law), the person to whom the residue of real estate is devised by a will. -- Residuary legatee (Law), the person to whom the residue of pers…

alterably firm his love entire. Milton. An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator. Blackstone.

he first testament. Heb. ix. 15. Holographic testament, a testament written wholly by the testator himself. Bouvier.

A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator.

attains to twenty-one years of age is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. Blackstone. -- Vested remainder (Law), an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent. Blackstone. Kent.