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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

That faculty of the mind which chooses between one object or end and another; a disposition of real and personal property to take effect after the death of the person who makes it; the instrument by which such a disposition is made. v. Ambulatorius, etc.; Mineupative will; Quum in testamento, etc.; Voluntas, etc. Wills, statute of: the statute 33 Hen. VIII., c. 1, by which a person seised in fee simple, socage tenure, was enabled to devise all his lands at pleasure, except to corporations, and a person seised in chivalry, two-thirds. In Scots- law. That part of a process which contains the mandate,