Intestacy
in·tes·tate (
n-t
s
t
t
, -tt) Law
adj.
1. Having made no legal will: an intestate parent.
2. Not disposed of by a legal will: intestate lands.
n.
One who dies without a legal will.
[Middle English, from Old French intestat, from Latin intesttus : in-, not; see in-1 + testtus, testate, from past participle of testr
, to make a will; see testament.]
in·testa·cy (-t
-s
) n.
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| Noun | 1. | intestacy – the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will
situation, state of affairs – the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; “the present international situation is dangerous”; “wondered how such a state of affairs had come about”; “eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation”- Franklin D.Roosevelt
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