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  2. Issue (genealogy) - Wikipedia

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    Issue is a narrower category than heirs, which includes spouses, and collaterals (siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles). [2] This meaning of issue arises most often in wills and trusts. [3] A person who has no living lineal descendants is said to have died without issue. A child or children are first-generation descendants and are a subset of ...

  3. Forced heirship - Wikipedia

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    Critics suggest that there is a great difference between varying wills to the minimum degree to provide sufficient financial support for dependants, and prohibiting the testator from distributing the estate or a proportion of the estate to any female children, or younger male children, and that it cannot be any less repugnant to force a ...

  4. Probate - Wikipedia

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    In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.

  5. Will and testament - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Legal declaration where a person distributes property at death "Last Will" redirects here. For the film, see Last Will (film). This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of ...

  6. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Literal translation Definition and use English pron a fortiori: from stronger An a fortiori argument is an "argument from a stronger reason", meaning that, because one fact is true, a second (related and included) fact must also be true. / ˌ eɪ f ɔːr t i ˈ oʊ r aɪ, ˌ eɪ f ɔːr ʃ i ˈ oʊ r aɪ / a mensa et thoro: from table and bed

  7. Paraphrase of Erasmus - Wikipedia

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    Volume 1 includes the Gospels through Acts; Volume 2 contains the balance of the New Testament with the exception of The Paraphrase on Revelation (omitted by Erasmus), which is by Leo Jud. Herbert gives a table of contents for the copy that he has examined (most Bibles from this period include neither an index or a table of contents).

  8. On the Bondage of the Will - Wikipedia

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    Despite his own criticisms of contemporary Roman Catholicism, Erasmus argued that it needed reformation from within and that Luther had gone too far.He held that all humans possessed free will and that the doctrine of predestination conflicted with the teachings and thrust [1] of the Bible, which continually calls wayward humans to repent.

  9. Legal history of wills - Wikipedia

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    In English law all wills must conform to certain statutory requirements; the Romans recognized from the time of Augustus an informal will called codicilli. The English codicil has little in common with this but the name. It is not an informal will, but an addition to a will, read as a part of it, and needing the same formalities of execution.