ex testamento

English

Adverb

ex testamento (not comparable)

1. (law) By or from a will/testament.
   • 1840, Arthur Browne, A Compendious View of the Civil Law, and of the Law of the Admiralty, page 300:

     And even if the legatee had purchased such bequeathed property of another, he might recover the value ex testamento.

   • 1883, Ferdinand Mackeldey, Moses Aaron Dropsie, Handbook of the Roman Law - Volumes 1-2, page 441:

     To the first ordinance was added that it should apply when the mother inherited ex testamento

   • 1916, Alexander Fraser Russell, Gerard Molyneux Swift, Reginald Craufurd Streeten, The South African Law Reports. Appellate Division, page 67:

     If in 1903 the survivor passed ownership, the children would have to pay transfer duty, because it was not ex testamento.

   • 1976, The Law of South Africa - Volume 31:

     […] distinction between trusts inter vivos and trusts ex testamento

   • 1985, Quintus Asconius Pedianus, Bruce A. Marshall, A Historical Commentary on Asconius, page 301:

     Later putting on a gladiatorial display in memory of someone, provided it was ex testamento, was a way around the lex Tullia de ambitu ( see above on 31.6-7 ) .