codicil

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It also included a one-sentence codicil: “I leave my sons Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson and Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson one dollar each.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2022

When the Greek goddess Eos asked the gods to grant her mortal lover Tithonus eternal life, she neglected to add a necessary codicil to the celestial contract — that he have eternal youth as well.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2019

We can’t have some codicil or letter or joint declaration.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2019

The document, known as a codicil, First page of codicil to Fred Trump’s will Read document did many things.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2018

This bitterness extended even beyond the grave, for by a codicil dated two months before her death she bequeathed legacies to the two men who had most distinguished themselves by their attacks on that Minister.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose