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Testable

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A person is said to be testable when he has capacity to make a will. A man of twenty-one years of age and of sane mind is testable. The capacity to make a will must be distinguished from a special power to dispose of property by will. Thus, a power given to a married woman by a settlement to dispose of property by will does not make her testable.

L. R. 7 H. L. 593.

But if property is settled on a married woman for her separate use, she is testable so far as that property is concerned.