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WILL

Volume 20 · 68 words · 1823 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 testament: