Sentence examples for in testamentary from inspiring English sources

In fact, Mr. Levy says, the United States is extremely generous; $306 billion was given to charity in 2007, 80percentt of which came from individuals while they were alive or in testamentary gifts, as opposed to donations from corporations or foundations.

On July 14 , 1959 John Jacob's lawyer, Harry H. Lipsig, filed a petition in surrogate's court in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., claiming that Vincent's will was not valid because he "was suffering from senility and was lacking in testamentary capacity" when he signed the will.

In Scotland, testamentary disposition of land remained precarious until the enactment of the Titles to Land Consolidation Act in 1868.

"I have in my Testamentary arrangements secured your comfort," she wrote to him, "and have constantly thought of you well.

He has planned, negotiated, and closed over a billion dollars worth of inter vivos gifting, plus several times that in future testamentary gifts.

He secured the submission of the clergy to the King in matters of legislation, and in 1533 he secured the passage of the Act in Restraint of Appeals to Rome, preventing appeals to Rome in matrimonial and testamentary cases.

This would mean that the trust is not testamentary in nature but falls within the ordinary equitable jurisdiction of the court.

The response has been to view the secret trust as a disposition inter vivos ("between the living") rather than testamentary in nature.

Bavaria, granted to the house of Wittelsbach as a duchy in 1180, was strengthened by the acquisition of the Palatinate in 1214; but subsequent testamentary partition restricted this important gain to the Upper Palatinate.

The Law Society has retorted that it is simply acting in the spirit of testamentary freedom.

Its existence raises questions about Hubbard's "testamentary capacity" in his final months – was he out of it on Demerol?