1. Some expressions received from executors, commenting on the fine attitude of such testators, include:

2. What this illustrates is the tenacity of testators towards formulae which they believe increase the chances of their dispositions being observed.

3. Betroth Many testators were in their dotage, of course, but a good proportion died young, still apprenticed, perhaps mentioning parents, siblings and, sometimes, a Betrothed. From the Cambridge English Corpus The two women to whom he is either Betrothed …

4. In their intriguing and innovative Article, Boilerplate and Default Rules in Wills Law: An Empirical Analysis, 1 Professors Reid Kress Weisbord and David Horton examine the use of language in wills that “is copied wholesale from other documents” and “is unlikely to leap out to testators.” 2 Through a review of 230 wills that were probated in Sussex County, New Jersey in the first half