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Example sentences for "testamentary"

Lexicographically close words:
tesserae; test; testa; testacea; testaceous; testamenti; testamento; testamentum; testator; testators
  1. It is true that it is not usual for testamentary documents to be tattooed upon the skin of a human being; but, because it is not usual, it does not follow that a tattooed document is not a valid one.

  2. And Eustace did listen with open eyes and ears while Augusta, getting over her shyness as best she might, told the whole story of his uncle's death, and of the way in which he had communicated his testamentary wishes.

  3. And if he did die, it was probable that his fate would be their fate also, and no record would remain of them or of Mr. Meeson's testamentary wishes.

  4. These archives contain a great mass of testamentary and other documents, which probably have come into that singular depository in connection with bequests to public charities.

  5. Barozzi, one of a series relating to the testamentary estate of Marco Polo, goes far to confirm the tradition.

  6. The Athenian system, as interpreted by Isaeus, is thus intermediate, at least in spirit, between the purely religious standpoint of the Hindu and the maturer form which Roman testamentary law had reached before the time of Cicero.

  7. The speeches of Isaeus supply valuable illustrations to the early history of testamentary law.

  8. Once more he came to fulfil the Old Testamentary prophets.

  9. When the declaration of unfitness is made, the practical effect is to give to the innocent parent the sole guardianship, as well as power to appoint a testamentary guardian to the exclusion of the guilty parent.

  10. Testamentary devolution of property went back to an early period in a country in which the legal relations of trade had been so fully developed.

  11. Do not forget to let him know my testamentary dispositions.

  12. At last, it occurred to me that his testamentary dispositions should be attended to, and I wrote to General Vallee, informing him of the last wishes of my husband.

  13. Convinced that the resources of science were insufficient to distinguish real from apparent death, he left testamentary instructions to provide against his own premature burial.

  14. A large majority of people do not, however, leave testamentary instructions, for the simple reason that they have nothing to bequeath.

  15. As the promotion of knowledge had been the object of their regard through life, so these great men made it the subject of their testamentary bounty.

  16. Repentance, nephew, though too late to change a parent's testamentary dispositions, may be quickened by the consequences of a parent's resentment.

  17. By his testamentary wishes none of the associations to which he belonged, neither the Academy nor the Senate, was to be represented at his funeral; and no oration was to be pronounced over his tomb.

  18. He was son of the Councillor of the Great Chamber, who had sent the king's testamentary disposition as regards the regency to the assembled Parliament.

  19. That the stream of things is now making for more moderate fortunes, and more of them, is confirmed by the testamentary statistics of the previous ten years published some time ago by the Spectator newspaper.

  20. But the experience of unnatural parents recommended some limitations of their testamentary powers.

  21. It changes, or rather, it adjourns, the whole of the testamentary provisions.

  22. We have seen the desire of the father, as shown by the testamentary provision he made for his son Martin, whom he probably designed for one of the liberal professions, that this his youngest boy should be brought up at the university.

  23. She was buried on the 9th of September preceding, in the church of Saint Michael le Belfrey; it being her testamentary wish to be interred near to her first husband.

  24. The only mention made of tobacco by Raleigh himself occurs in a testamentary note made a little while before his execution in 1618.

  25. No man shall bind his child to apprenticeship or service, or part with the control of such child or create any testamentary guardian therefor, unless the mother, if living, shall in writing signify her assent thereto.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "testamentary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.