Precatory Words
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Words which create a precatory trust (g. v.)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Expressions in a will praying or requesting that a thing be done. See 106 Am. St. Rep. 500, note, quoting Bouvier Law Dictionary.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Words of entreaty, request, desire, wish, or recommendation, employed in wills, as distinguished from direct and imperative terms, 1 Williams, Bx'rs, 88, 89, and note. And see Pratt V. Miller, 23 Neb. 496, 37 N. W. 263; Pratt v. Pratt Hospital, 88 Md. 610, 42 Atl. 51.
Defined under Precatory in Black's Law Dictionary.