0 someone who makes a will:
The law restricts a testator's freedom to distribute property.
Attitudes varied amongst testators in a single locality, suggesting that this is not simply a reflection of scribal preferences.
Executors probably acted as part of their responsibility to benefit the soul of a testator, although no grants obtained by them are specifically identified.
Even where the law admitted free choice on the part of the testator, the eldest son was always preferred.
If the testator wishes to leave the disposable part to a spouse, he or she must make a will.
These wills are included in the post-married women's property acts group because the testator could have made changes after the passing of the law.
However, it does refer, as is evident from the subsequent anaphor his which refers back to the dependent (a testator).
An associated and similarly striking change concerns testators' relative indifference to burial.
The status of about a quarter of the testators was not identified.
