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This article offers an analysis of testament forms written in Slovak language by the citizens of Trnava city in the first half of the 19th century. From a stylistic and research point of view the testaments are mainly of private nature, which is characterized by some specific particularities at various language levels. The research based on 100 testaments reveals the stylistic features of testament forms on the background of particularities of the Slovak language used in the western part of Slovakia, in Trnava, from the end of the 18th to the first half of the 19th century. The aim of this article is to classify this document from a legal and stylistic point of view and analyse the specifics of testament forms that are characterized by stability developed over the centuries.