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WILL

Volume 18 · 95 words · 1797 Edition

or Last Will, in law, signifies the declaration of a man's mind and intent relating to the disposition of his lands, goods, or other estate, or of what he would have done after his death. In the common law there is a distinc- tion made between a will and a testament; that is called a will where lands or tenements are given; and when the disposition concerns goods and chattels alone, it is termed a testament. See Testament.

Will-with-a-cob, or Jack-with-a-lantern, two popu- lar names for the meteor called ignis fatuus. See Light, no. 46.