codicil

Example Sentences

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The widow’s attorney argued that the holographic will was “an ineffective codicil” to the original will and “likely a nullity.”

From Los Angeles Times

Now, for the same purpose, they have concocted a codicil that essentially nullifies the principle.

From Washington Post

Twelve years later, when her mother died, Fremont realized she had signed an identical codicil at the same time.

From Washington Post

When two American politicians are assassinated by the Russian mafia, the sitting U.S. president whips out a supersecret codicil to the U.S Constitution authorizing him to ignore federal law in an emergency.

From Washington Times

He said the UK must say "no to time limits or unilateral escape hatches or all those kind of elaborate devices, glosses, codicils and so on that you could apply to the backstop".

From BBC