Crossword-Solution: TESTATE 7 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Let us begin with inheritances, whose mode of devolution is twofold, according as a person dies testate or intestate; and of these two modes we will first treat of acquisition by will.

Apart from the institution of slavery, which is sanctioned by the Muhammadan religion, the religious customs and laws of the various tribes "especially with respect to the holding, possession, transfer and disposition of lands and goods, and testate or intestate succession thereto, and marriage, divorce and legitimacy, and the rights of property and personal rights" are carefully regarded by the Company's Government, as in duty bound, according to the terms of Articles 8 and 9 of the Royal Charter.

Etym: [See Testate.] (Law) Defn: The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

Property delivered to foreigners who are the legitimate progenitors or descendants of foreigners who have died testate or ab intestato, shall pay at the time they receive it a duty of five per cent.

What system it may have I leave testate in the genes of time as my memento of the events, holidays, and seasons that made the living so importantly mine: a personal history of nones, kalends, and ides, without chronology.