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TESTE, practice. The teste of a writ is the concluding clause, commencing
with the word witness, &c.
2. The act of congress of May 8, 1792, 1 Story's Laws U. S. 257,
directs that all writs and process issuing from the supreme or a circuit
court, shall bear teste of the chief justice of the supreme court, or if
that office be vacant, of the associate justice next in precedence; and that
all writs or process issuing from a district court, shall hear teste of the
judge of such court, or, if the said office be vacant, of the clerk thereof.
Vide Serg. Const. Law, Index, h.t.; 20 Vin. Ab. 262; Steph. Plead. 25.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.