devisor
testator

The actual devisor of an invention that is the subject of a patent.

He was the devisor and co-presenter of the first ever bridge programs on television, BBC 1936.

His good standing with several members of the High Council enabled him, after only a short time, to gain command of another battle cruiser, the Devisor.

Who's the Greatest, devisor and scriptwriter of an ITV series that involved celebrities such as:

Captain Singh identified the Devisor, Captain Koloth's ship as the one that had diverted him.

As an adroit devisor of mechanism he fully earned a reputation which former generations rated more highly than the modern critic, with his facilities for comparison, is prepared to accept.

Next two are the Kahless, last known Commander was Ekthorn; and the Devisor, Commander Koloth's ship.

Born: Charles Richter, American seismologist and devisor of the Richter scale, by which earthquakes are measured, in Hamilton, Ohio; (d. 1985)

"She's the famous one," he says, offering one of the few concessions to pass his lips lately in his continuing role as devisor of 11th-hour court stratagems for the Bush campaign.

In the churchyard stands the tomb of Francis Beaufort, devisor of the Beaufort scale; and that of John Hunter, the second governor of New South Wales.

Always getting nearer to the verge of the pit of nullity in which these qualifications would be irrelevant, we have now arrived at the point where the show's devisor Simon Cowell - who else?

Born in Newark, Ohio and a graduate of Oberlin College (1962), Ward's father was F. Champion Ward, educator and a devisor of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.

In 1544, Padua was created by royal patent "Devisor of His Majesty's Buildings", a unique office held by no one else, distinct from that of "Surveyor", which suggests he was involved in military designs.

The plaintiff responded by arguing, first that this was not a "present Devise", because the devisor would have known at the time he made his will that I. S. did not at that time have a male heir.

--Dr. Emanuel Tagore, to the author It has been sixty-five years since USS Sentry met IKV Devisor in the UFP's first known contact with the Klingon Empire.

The BBC's own internal Visual Effects Department, run by its devisor Jack Kine, was, in 1963, still a comparatively small affair, although fighting hard to win increased resources and cash to cope with the rising tide of effects requirements.

That in turn also fostered a fixation on antiquity and negligence for the other periods of history, especially the Byzantine Empire, for an age that bore different names and was a devisor to different, and in many ways more important legacies.

Nicholas Parsons, who has been at the helm of the series since it began, introduces this scintillating quartet of editions and provides fascinating background information on the game, as well as memories of its players and its devisor, Ian Messiter.

In the past she worked as a devisor, writer, director and adapter both inside and outside of education, having written or adapted and directed touring shows for schools, taken shows to the Edinburgh Festival and occasionally contributed to the work of Insomniac Productions, a professional touring company.

The testator is eager that his wife should leave nothing to her brother.

Which slave, for instance, did the testator mean to leave?

The whole property of the testator could not be alienated.

We can see what the testator had in mind.

What is the effect of a testator instructing his daughter to make no will?

In other words, the testator has a right to leave property to whom he wishes.

Instead, an agreement made between the testator and trustees elsewhere.

A testator would do well, however, to set up a trust if he was concerned that his will might fail.

For example, where a testator leaves property to the attorney who drew up the will.

First, the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom.

The question is whether, since no children were born to the testator, the slaves are due their freedom at once.

The testator had made a will, but then opened it to have a look at it.

Now, the testator in the case before the court derived, so far as appears, no personal benefit from the marriage.

It is usual for the testator and the witnesses to sign every sheet.

More generally, the problem is proving that the testator intended to create a trust.

The third example is like the second, since the testator has made the intended beneficiary explicit.

The intention of the testator is to be observed.

Russian law strongly reduces the number of options that a testator has.

All the rules above are subject to any contrary intention being expressed by the testator.

Some bequests do not vest immediately upon death of the testator.

This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills.

A specific bequest will fail, if the testator parts with the thing before death.

Another point of controversy was whether or not the second testator had to benefit from the initial disposition.

The law of wills is based on the intent of the testator.

A testator can revoke his will at any time during his life.