Abstract
Mediaeval reports of last will and testament records included in Ortyle magdeburskie (German Urteils) enable us to reconstruct the text paradigm of the last will and testament as early as in the 15th-century Polish. The register of elementary and facultative components of mediaeval texts of last will and testament is very similar to the formulation of lay and ecclesiastical testaments from later periods. The basic structure of the text of testaments remains virtually unchanged, which already in the 16th century had a stable semantic formula that could be summarized in words: who transfers the inheritance to whom in the face of unavoidable death. Consequently, the Middle and Modern Polish language acts of the last will have their structural and stylistic foundations in the Old Polish period when the conventions typical of the paradigm of the testament documents became established in the Polish language.
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