TESTATUM

2 definitions found

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TESTATUM, practice. The name of a writ which is issued by the court of one 
  county, to the sheriff of another county, in the same state, when the 
  defendant cannot be found in the county where the court is located; for 
  example, after a judgment has been obtained, and a ca. sa. has been issued, 
  which has been returned non est inventus, a testatum ca. sa. may be issued 
  to the sheriff of the county where the defendant is. Vide 20 Vin. Ab. 259; 7 


  Com. Dig. 424. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TESTATUM, conveyancing. That part of a deed which commences with the words 
  "this indenture witnesseth."