NUNOCUPATIVE WILL. A will which depends merely upon oral evidence, having been declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses, and afterwards reduced to writing. Ex parte Thompson, 4 Bradf. Sur. (N.

Lat. In practice. The name of a writ (now abolished) which, in the English law, lay for a sister co-helress dispossessed by her coparcener of lands and tenements whereof their father, brother, or any common ancestor died seised of an es tate in fee-simple. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 197.