The article explores how a duly executed will (or even failed attempt) can hold legal consequence long before its maker dies and expectancies vest. It mentions possibility for nuance implicitly casts pre-death wills as precatory nothing-scraps, setting them as the opposite of a matured post-death and operant conveyance. It also mentions hidden structure of testamentary intent and the peculiar wishful thinking termed the "expectancy" that its expression creates.