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Definition of Attesting
1. attest [v] - See also: attest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attesting
Literary usage of Attesting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions at Nisi Prius by Henry Roscoe, Maurice Powell (1884)
"It was long a settled rule that wherever a deed or other instrument is subscribed
by attesting witnesses, one of them at least must be called to prove the ..."
2. A Treatise on the American Law of Administration by John Gabriel Woerner (1899)
"Where a will contains a devise or legacy to an attesting witness, but is attested
by a sufficient number of competent witnesses in addition to such devisee ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"Adverse testimony of all the attesting witnesses. Wills with attestation clauses
have been held sufficiently proved against adverse testimony of all the ..."
4. Digest of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions at Nisi Prius by Maurice Powell, Henry Roscoe (1891)
"attesting witness, when to be called,] It was long a settled rule that •wherever
a deed or other instrument is subscribed by attesting witnesses, ..."
5. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"Meaning of the term "attesting Witness."—An attesting witness is a person who,
by request of the maker of the instrument, or with his consent, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"*In the ecclesiastical courts on affidavit that an attesting witness had been
diligently sought, and could not be practice in ec- found, an executor might ..."
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