testatrix

[ te-stey-triks ]

noun

, Law.

, plural tes·ta·tri·ces [te-, stey, -tr, uh, -seez, tes-t, uh, -, trahy, -seez],

1. a woman who makes a will.
2. a woman who has died leaving a valid will.

Gender Note

See -trix.

Word History and Origins

Origin of testatrix¹

1585–95; < Late Latin testātrīx; testator, -trix

Example Sentences

But the whole of the testatrix’s property, amounting, I believe, to between twenty and forty thousand pounds, is given unconditionally to her beloved nephew, John Lewis!’

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But the testatrix in the case at bar has left nothing to construction.

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Now that would be acting in direct opposition to the express and formal wish of the testatrix.

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By the same instrument the testatrix bequeathed to her grand-daughter a mulatto slave John Patten two and a half years old.

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Then the testatrix gave, devised, and bequeathed to her “dear daughter Catherine, wife of Francis Peveril, Esquire, with remainder to the heirs of her body, the sum of two thousand pounds of lawful money.”

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