Codicil
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Codicil can refer to:
  • Codicil (will)
    Codicil (will)
    A codicil is a document that amends, rather than replaces, a previously executed will. Amendments made by a codicil may add or revoke small provisions , or may completely change the majority, or all, of the gifts under the will...

    : An addition made to a will
    Will (law)
    A will or testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death...

  • Any addition made subsequent and appended to the original
  • Any addition or appendix, such as a corollary to a theorem
    Theorem
    In mathematics, a theorem is a statement that has been proven on the basis of previously established statements, such as other theorems, and previously accepted statements, such as axioms...

  • Codicil (poem): A poem by Derek Walcott
    Derek Walcott
    Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...


Ex) The Court held that the letter was a valid holographic codicil to the decedent's formal will.
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