Testator

Quick meaning: Testator is a noun meaning (law) One who makes or has made a legally valid will.

Meaning

(law) One who makes or has made a legally valid will.

Example Sentences

As it is, knowing that the testator was a gentleman of the highest intelligence and acumen, and that he has absolutely no relations living to whom he could have confided the guardianship of the child, we do not feel justified in taking this course.

[…] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”.

Word Forms

• testators
• testatour

Synonyms for testator

Depending on context, synonyms include devisor, legator, testamentor, testate.

Antonyms for testator

Common opposites include intestate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include testate, decedent, testamentor, legator, devisor, will-maker.

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