[a. L. lēgātor, agent-n. f. lēgāre to bequeath.] One who gives something by will; a testator.
1651. W. G., trans. Cowel’s Inst., 132. A Legator may make a Substitution Pupillary.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., II. 375. A fair estate, Bequeath’d by some Legator’s last intent.
1845. McCulloch, Taxation, II. vi. § 3 (1852), 298. The greater number of legators might have defeated the tax.
1878. J. Stark, Scot. Claims, 18. The residue of the legator’s estate.
Hence Legatorial a., of or pertaining to a legator or testator.
1883. J. Payn, Thicker than Water, III. xli. 115. Knowing that his codicil was secure, the legatorial anxieties which were obviously consuming those about him were not without their charms for him.
