Testator

//ˈtɛˌsteɪ.tɚ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who makes or has made a legally valid will.

    "[…] 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”."

  2. 2
    a person who makes a will wordnet

Etymology

From Latin testator (“one who makes a will, in Late Latin also one who bears witness”), from testari (“to bear witness, make a will”). See testament.

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