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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CODICIL (See also:Lat. codicillus, a little See also:book or tablet, diminutive of codex) , a supplement to a will (q.v.), containing anything which a testator desires to add, or which he wishes to retract, to explain or to alter. In See also:English See also:law a codicil requires to be executed with the same formalities as a will under the See also:Wills See also:Act 1837.

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