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WILL

Volume 20 · 113 words · 1810 Edition

that faculty of the mind by which it embraces or rejects any thing offered to it. See METAPHYSICS.

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 distinction made between a will and a testa- ment; 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 TES- TAMENT.

WILL-with-a-wilp, or Jack-with-a-lantern, two popular names for the meteor called ignis fatuus. See LIGHT, No 46.