Besides its ordinary meaning of a written recommendation to character, ''testimonial” has a speclal mean* lng, under SL 39 Eliz. c. 17, { 3, passed in 1597, under which it signified a certificate under the hand of a justice of the peace, testifying the place and time when and where a soldier or mariner landed, and the place of his dwelling or birth, unto which he was to pass, and a convenient time limited for hie passage. Every idle and wandering soldier or mariner not having such a testimonial, or willfully exceeding for above fourteen days the time limited thereby, or forging or coun-terfelting such testimonial, was to suffer death as a felon, wlthout benefit of clergy. This act was repealed, In 1812, by SL 52 Geo. III. c. 31. Mozley & whitley

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To be tested is to bear the teste, (q. o

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Lat. witnesses

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Lat. In old Englisb law and practice. A solemn formula of attestation hy the sovereign, used at the condu-sion of charters, and other public instru-ments, and also of original writs out of chan* cery. Spelman

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In practice. The concluding clause, commencing with the word "witness,” etc. A writ which bears the teste is sometimes said to be tested

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In practice. A writ containing a testatum clause; such as a testatum capias, a testatum fl. fa., and a testatum ca. sa. See Testatum

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Lat in the civil law. Testate; one who has made a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7

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A woman who makes a will; a woman who dies leaving a will; a female testator

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In praotioo. when a writ of execution has been directed to the sheriff of a county, and he returns that the defendant is not found in ills bailiwick, or tiiat he has no goods there, as the case may be, then a second writ, reciting this former

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One who has made a will; one who dies leavlng a will

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witness; evidence

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Lat in tbo civil law. A testament; a will, or last will

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Lat in the dvil law. To testify; to attest; to declare, publish, or make known a thing before witnesses. To make a will. Calvin

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Pertaining to a will or testament; as teatamentary causes. De-rlved from, founded on, or appointed by a testament or will; as a testamentary guardian, letters teatamentary, etc

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Lat in the

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The state or condition of leaving a will at one’s death, opposed to “Intestacy

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A disposition of personal property to take place after the owner’s de-cease, according to his desire and direction. Plnche v. Jones, 54 Fed. 865, 4 C. C. A. 622; Aubert’s Appeal, 109 Pa. 447, 1 Atl. 336; Conklin v. Egerton, 21 wend. (N. Y.) 436; Ragsdale v. Booker, 2 Strob. Eq. (S. C.) 348

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An anclent and au-thentic record In two volumes, in the cus-tody of the klng’s remembrancer in the ex-chequer, sald to be compiled by John de Nevil, a justice itinerant, in the eighteenth and twenty-fourth years of Henry III. Cow-ell. These volumes were prlnted in 1807, under the authority of the commissioners of the publlc records, .and contain an account

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A person is said to be test-able when he has capacity to make a will; a man of twenty-one years of age and of Bane mind is testable

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Lat In

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To bring one to a trial and exam-ination, or to ascertain the truth or the quality or fitness of a thing

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Alarm; fright; dread; tbe state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused b.v the appear-ance of danger. In an indictment for riot, it must be charged that the acts done were

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Lat. In old English law. Third publication or proclama-tion of intended marriage

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The courts established in the territories of the United States

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A pnrt of a country sep-arated from the rest, and subject to a particular jurisdlction

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