Definition of "legator" []

• One that makes a will; a testator. (noun)

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• "Yet it is not obvious what such a legacy means, when the legator is such a peculiarly fetishized and disavowed figure."
• "Another thing they learned was that, even then, they would not receive the whole of the money left them, for seeing they could claim no relation to the legator, ten per cent must be deducted from their legacy."
• "The residue of his personal estate was left to four gentlemen, three of whom had quitted this world before the legator; the bequests, therefore, had lapsed."