And now he made a feeble and vain attempt to soothe her, and ended by promising to start the first thing in the morning and get both her testators bound over to keep the peace by noon.
He somewhat overrated it,--not being aware of the private reasons she had for thinking that her two testators were enemies to the death.
You will also notice how strongly both testators insisted that these funds should for ever remain separate foundations, and should never be mixed with any other.
If their intention was to keep up the memory of their names it has succeeded, for the Leech and Aisley Charity, established so long ago, remains to this day under the same name, and the funds are still applied as the testators directed.
It was a common practice, when the body was embalmed, to take out the heart and bowels, and inter them in a different church to that in which the body was buried; testators sometimes made a request in their wills for this to be done.
The wills are alphabetically arranged in the boxes, which are of uniform size, and contain more or less letters; the first box for 1835, for instance, contains the wills of testators whose names commence with A.
But at an early period this desire or infirmity was made use of by the clergy, who wielded such vast influence over the dying, to induce testators to dispose of property for enriching churches and monasteries, and various other institutions.
Testators often give directions as to the place and manner of their burial, as well as the expenses of their funeral pageant.
Too often testators place all the obstacles they can in the way of their widows marrying again, as will appear more fully in another part of this work.
Nearly all of the testators were people of prominence and distinction, and these wills are preserved in monastic houses to which they devised property.
Some wills have been refused probate upon the ground of a disgusting fondness for animals, evinced by the testators during their lives or in the testamentary act.
The most frequent and dangerous propensity which law has to check and guard against in testators is that of perpetuating in their family for generations vast property and estates.
On this account, some very worthy and benevolent schemes of testatorshave failed.
By the bestowal of legacies a rare opportunity is offered to testators either to gratify some peculiar desire, or to restrain or control some one who is the beneficiary.
Their executors were sourly wondering whether the two venerable testators were not even then grinning from those far-away sepulchres in contemplation of the first feud their unprimitive castle was to know.
The grandchildren of the testators were ready to accept the best settlement that could be obtained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "testators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
