A will is a written testimony that allows an individual to express his or her last wishes.
A will is a written testimony left by a person to express his or her last wishes , deciding how his or her property will be distributed after his or her death. The term comes from the Latin word testamentum .
For example: “In his will, the singer decided that his luxurious Malibu mansion would be left to his nephew Michael” , “I have already written my will: it is in the custody of my lawyer, who will only make it known when I am dead” , “Surprise at the will of the North American actress, who decided not to leave anything to her children or her husband” .
The will as a legal act
The will is a legal act . The person in question, through this act, establishes which individuals will dispose of his or her assets after his or her death .
It should be noted that the will is not always limited to patrimonial issues, but can also provide information on other matters (the subject may recognize a descendant , to cite one possibility).
Cause of family conflicts
Although fierce battles over wills seem to be exclusively linked to the rich and famous, it is surprising to discover that this is one of the most common events in large families . It is a sad fact at first glance, a very sad scene that says a lot about each person's priorities and the coldness with which they relate to their supposed loved ones.
It should be noted that this voracity with which many people look at the assets of their elders does not begin after their death, but sometimes originates several years before, and intensifies until it becomes a kind of obsession: there are plenty of stories of children who do everything they can to prevent their parents from using their money freely; especially when the latter have reached an advanced age, the former try to take over their bank accounts to ensure that the will will leave them the juiciest inheritance possible.
The Bible is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament.
The testament through works
The idea of a testament also refers to the last works developed by a subject, in which he reflects the most important aspects of his work or his thought.
The individual's intention is that, in the future, he will be considered or evaluated through these works: "I am finishing a novel of more than 500 pages: it will be my literary testament."
The concept in Christianity
In Christianity , finally, the Bible is divided into two testaments: the Old Testament (which focuses on events that occurred before the birth of Jesus ) and the New Testament (written after the birth of Jesus ).
The Christian canon defines the Old Testament as the first section of the Bible, where we find various books of wisdom, prophecy and history , such as Genesis , the two books of Samuel , Proverbs and the Book of Zechariah . The total number of books contained in this first part varies according to the religious group: for the Orthodox Church, there are 51; for the Catholic Church, 46; Protestants recognize 39.
The Old Testament is a work of great complexity, in which various genres and texts written at various periods in the history of the Hebrew people coexist. It should be noted that neither the "Bible" nor the "Old Testament" are names that Hebrew-speaking Jews or Christian denominations have used.
The second part of the Bible is the New Testament, which contains books and letters that were written after the birth of Jesus Christ . Interestingly, some scholars claim that the term "testament" does not reflect the true meaning of the word that originally referred to these two sets of books ( diatheke , from Greek), but that the correct term would be to speak of the old and new " covenant " or "desire" of God with the human being.