A will is a written testimony that allows an individual to express his or her last wishes.
A will is a written testimony that a person leaves to express their last will , deciding how their assets will be distributed once they die. The term comes from the Latin word testamentum .
For example: “In his will, the singer decided that his luxurious Malibu mansion will be left for his nephew Michael” , “I have already written my will: it is guarded by my lawyer, who will only make it known when I am dead” , “Surprise "by the will of the American actress, who decided not to leave anything to her children or her husband."
The will as a legal act
The will is constituted as a legal act . The person in question, through this act, establishes which individuals will dispose of their assets after their death .
It should be noted that the will is not always limited to property issues, but can also provide information on other matters (the subject may recognize a descendant , to name one possibility).
Reason for family confrontations
Although fierce confrontations over the will seem exclusively linked to the rich and famous, it is surprising to discover that it is one of the most common events in large families . It is a regrettable fact at first glance, a very sad scene that says a lot about the priorities of each person and the coldness with which they relate to their supposed loved ones.
It should be noted that this voracity with which many observe the heritage 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 what 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 with as juicy an inheritance as possible.
The Bible is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament.
The will through works
The idea of a testament also refers to the last works that a subject develops, in which he reflects the most important aspects of his work or his thought.
The individual's intention is that, in the future, he or she 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 a wisdom, prophetic and historical type, 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, 46; Protestants recognize 39.
The Old Testament is a work of great complexity, where various genres and texts written at various times in the history of the Hebrew people coexist. It should be noted that neither "Bible" nor "Old Testament" are names that Hebrew-speaking Jews or Christian denominations have used.
The second part of the Bible is the New Testament, and it contains books and letters whose writing took place after the birth of Jesus Christ . As an interesting fact, 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 ( diatheké , from the Greek), but that the correct thing would be to speak of old and new. « covenant » or «desire» of God with the human being.