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EXPLANATION OF UNUSUAL WORDS FOUND IN WILLS

Attestation clause: The statement at the end of the will where the witnesses sign and

swear or attest that the will was signed in front of them by the maker of the will.

Last Will and Testament: The document that tells the Court how you want your estate

divided.

Probate: The name of the legal proceeding to distribute your estate

Estate: All the Property you have when you die.

Real Property: Land or any interest in land.

Trust Property: Land owned by the US Government but held in “trust” for and

individual.

Personal Property: All things which are not real property.

“Give, devise and bequeath”: Language used in a will showing that you want to give

your interest in something to another.

Owned jointly: Something owned by more than one person.

10.

Right of survivorship: Legal words meaning when you die any c-owner of your

property automatically inherits your share.

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Personal Representative: the person you name in your will to handle your estate.

12.

“Sound and disposing memory”: Legal words describing someone who uses reason to

make decision about regular things like other rational people.

13.

Codicil: An formal change of the will.

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Testator or Testatrix: Legal words for a man or a woman who make a will.

15.

Testate: When a person dies without making a will.

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Instate: When a person dies without making a will.

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Heirs: Any person who you name in your will too receive something.

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Heir-at-law: Any person who receives some of your property by the direction of the

Tribal Code, when you die intestate

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