Legal Dictionary
Main Entry:
tes·tePronunciation:
'tes-tEFunction:
nounEtymology: Medieval Latin
teste meipso (or
seipso) by my (or his) own witness
1 : the witnessing or concluding clause of an instrument (as a writ)
2 : WITNESS —used esp. formerly to indicate that what follows is named as authority for what precedes
