Testament es una película de drama postapocalíptico estadounidense de 1983 coproducida y dirigida por Lynne Littman, escrita por John Sacret Young, y protagonizada por Jane Alexander, William Devane, Leon Ames, Ross Harris, Lukas Haas, Roxana Zal, Kevin Costner y Rebecca De Mornay. Basada en el cuento corto de 1981 "The Last Testament" de Carol Amen, la película se centra en la desintegración de una pequeña comunidad suburbana en la zona metropolitana de la Bahía de San Francisco después de que una guerra nuclear destruye la civilización exterior.
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“I tell my kids ... "Tell me when I'm going gaga — but all three of you had better come in, because if it's just one of you, you're out of the will.”
“As lawyers we must construe the will like any other document.”
“No previous will can be treated properly as a precedent for another which is expressed in different language, and no decision on the precise words of a former will can as a general rule be of the least service in guiding the Court as to the construction of other words. Unless you can get a principle from a case which is applicable generally to other cases, the precedent is of little use.”
“Every will stands on its own bottom and is various as anything whatsoever, and therefore it is hard to cite a case that can quadrate. I have mean thoughts of my own opinion. I may say in this case, diffieilius est invenire quam vincere, as Caesar said when he and his army ran about the Alps to find out a way.”
“Technical rules are not to be relied upon in explaining the intention of testators: and yet cases of intention are much embarrassed by authorities.”
“The Court is to pronounce according to the apparent intent of the testator, but that intent must be found in the words of the will, and is not to be collected by conjecture dehors the will.”
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