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adjective:
- Having made no legal will: an intestate parent.
- maybe not removed by a legal will: intestate lands.
- Without a legitimate will suggesting who to go out of one's estate to after demise.
- perhaps not created or bequeathed; not discarded by will.
- without made a legitimate might; without a will.
- Not devised or bequeathed; not removed by will.
- having made no legally valid will before demise or otherwise not disposed of by a legal will
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noun:
- person who dies without a legal might.
- an individual who dies without making a valid will.
- somebody who dies without making a legitimate might.
- people dying without making a valid might, or leaving any property not effectually bequeathed.
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others:
- Having made no will, or no good might; having left residential property not effectually disposed of by will.
- perhaps not disposed of by might; perhaps not legitimately devised or bequeathed: as, an intestate property.
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Definition for "intestate"
- Having made no legal will: an intestate parent.
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Sentence for "intestate"
- This removed land in intestate estates…
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