Ultima voluntas

Ultima voluntas
Lit. 'last wish'. A person's last spoken words and wishes became their will as certainly as those committed to paper. This was enforceble both in lay courts and Church courts. Church courts had cognisance of many matters we would consider the province of secular courts alone. -

Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases. .

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