testamentation

noun

testamentation

noun

Etymology From testament + -ation.

1

The act or power of giving by testament, or will.

  • 1760-1765, Edmund Burke, Tracts relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland By this law the right of testamentation was taken away , which the inferior tenures had always enjoyed ; and all tenures from the 27th Hen. VIII.

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