{"id":365786,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/testament.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"testament","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/testament.html","title":{"rendered":"Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p>&#91;Latin <i>testamentum<\/i>, from <i>testari<\/i> to call as a witness, make a will, from <i>testis<\/i> witness&#93;<br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> an act by which a person determines the disposition of his or her property after death &#91;a of property&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/will.html\">will <\/a> <i>NOTE: A testament was formerly concerned specifically with personal property, as in the phrase <i>last will and testament<\/i>. Now a will covers both personal and real property and the terms <i>will<\/i> and <i>testament<\/i> are generally synonymous, but the phrase lives on. <\/i> <br \/>  <b><i>  tes&#183;ta&#183;men&#183;ta&#183;ry   &#91;tes-t&#601;-men-t&#601;-r&#275;&#93;<br \/>  <i>adj<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Testament&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-365786","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/365786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=365786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}