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a will :
Non-married couples can designate each other as beneficiaries for life insurance benefits in their last will and testament.

Examples of testament

testament
We need courage to recognize these as far more useful for life in the role of testaments and 'witnesses'.
The composition of testaments needs to be understood within the context of the larger impact of the spread of literacy in the indigenous world.
Therefore, rather than totting up the numbers of testaments, an attempt was made to study replacement rates based on the sample wills.
The value of testaments for the study of social topography is undisputed.
A disproportionate percentage of indigenous testaments represent the established nobility and the well-off, as might be expected.
Second, it examines the impact that the composition of testaments had on the indigenous members of the colonial societies.
Every contribution adds materially to a deeper understanding of indigenous testaments.
A triad of structures located in the heart of the town still stand as testaments to its past importance.
How are gifts and testaments to be handled?
During the later 1990s, the practice of making legal agreements (testaments) by family firms increased.
The exegesis of the content of the testaments reveals surely as much as can be known about the individual testators and their lives.
Thirty years ago, a group of six books on ruling monarchies would have been considered the last testaments of an endangered anachronism.
In all these testaments, it is hard to escape the conclusion that they were conceived, at least in part, as public statements for a wider audience.
Although hospitals drew an increasing amount of support and publicity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this trend is not always corroborated by some recent studies of charitable testaments.
After 1884, more men through their testaments favoured their daughters than their sons.
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