Testamentary synonyms

This right and duty became a jurisdiction in all testamentary causes.

He had pledged himself to respect the testamentary disposition of Henry VIII.

Testamentary causes at first were subject to the concurrent jurisdiction of the spiritual and secular courts.

The bishop of London was treated as the diocesan bishop of the colonists in North America; and in order to provide for testamentary and matrimonial jurisdiction it was usual in the letters patent appointing the governor of a colony to name him ordinary.

The testamentary jurisdiction disappeared (as already stated) in France.