testatorship

Updated: May 10, 2025

Again, the original institutions of the Jews having provided nowhere for the privileges of Testatorship, the later Rabbinical jurisprudence, which pretends to supply the casus omissi of the Mosaic law, allows the Power of Testation to attach when all the kindred entitled under the Mosaic system to succeed have failed or are undiscoverable.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine - Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society