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Dictionary Results for intestate:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

intestate
    adj 1: having made no legally valid will before death or not
           disposed of by a legal will; "he died intestate";
           "intestate property" [ant: testate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Intestate \In*tes"tate\, a. [L. intestatus; pref. in- not +
   testatus, p. p. of testari to make a will: cf. F. intestat.
   See Testament.]
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   1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to
      die intestate. --Blackstone.
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            Airy succeeders of intestate joys.    --Shak.
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   2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an
      intestate estate.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Intestate \In*tes"tate\, n. (Law)
   A person who dies without making a valid will. --Blackstone.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

INTESTATE. One who, having lawful power to make a will, has made none, or 
one which is defective in form. In that case, he is said to die intestate, 
and his estate descends to his heir at law. See Testate. 
     2. This term comes from the Latin intestatus. Formerly, it was used in 
France indiscriminately with de confess; that is, without confession. It was 
regarded as a crime, on account of the omission of the deceased person to 
give something to the church, and was punished by privation of burial in 
consecrated ground. This omission, according to Fournel, Hist. des Avocats, 
vol. 1, p. 116, could be repaired by making an ampliative testament in the 
name of the deceased. See Vely, tom. 6, page 145; Henrion De Pansey, 
Authorite Judiciare, 129 and note. Also, 3 Mod. Rep. 59, 60, for the Law of 
Intestacy in England.

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