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The word "testator" has been employed in literature to evoke a sense of legal gravitas and to underline matters of inheritance, legacy, and intent. In Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, for example, it marks a figure whose generous bequests significantly exceed his own wealth, emphasizing the weight of his decisions over his estate [1]. Dumas and Maquet’s The Count of Monte Cristo uses the term to highlight the mystery surrounding what the testator truly intended, inviting a deeper inquiry into his motives [2]. Marco Polo’s writings refer to a testator in the context of vast and cross-cultural inheritances, presenting him as a man with roots in different regions, while also demonstrating the structured distribution of property, as seen in the delineation of an heir’s share [3, 4]. Furthermore, Tacitus mentions the unusual custom of involving an emperor as a co-heir with a testator’s children, further broadening the term’s implication within the realms of political and familial intertwining [5]. Even in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, the term is invoked to discuss real property and heritage in a manner that reflects both the legal and emotional dimensions of legacy [6].
  1. The bequests to these meritorious spinsters were so generous that their sum considerably exceeded the amount of the testator's property.
    — from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
  2. The two notaries looked at each other in mute astonishment and inquiry as to what were the real intentions of the testator.
    — from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  3. The testator describes himself as formerly of Constantinople, but now dwelling in the confine of S. Severo.
    — from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano
  4. If he have no male heir his Brother Marco shall have the Testator's share of his Father's bequest, and 2000 lire besides.
    — from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano
  5. 144 ( return ) [ It appears that the custom of making the emperor co-heir with the children of the testator was not by any means uncommon.
    — from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus
  6. Who was ever awe struck about a testator, or sang a hymn on the title to real property?
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot

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