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From Latin intestātus, from in- (“not”) + testātus (“testate”).
intestate (not comparable)
- Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
- Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will.
without a valid will
- Bulgarian: без завещание (bez zaveštanie)
- Catalan: intestat (ca), abintestat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Finnish: testamentiton
- French: intestat (fr)
- German: ohne Testament
- Irish: díthiomnach
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bêwesiyet, bêwesiyetname
- Manx: neuhymnagh
- Maori: wira kore
- Polish: beztestamentowy
- Spanish: intestado (es) m, abintestato (es)
- Ukrainian: без заповіту (bez zapovitu)
- Welsh: diewyllys, anghymyn
intestate (plural intestates)
- (law) A person who dies without making a valid will.
- Antonym: testator
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
the surplusages of intestates […] after the expiration of one full year from the death of the intestate is to be distributed : one - third to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead to their representatives : that is , their lineal descendants
- “intestate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “intestate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
intestate
intestate f (plural intestates)
- female equivalent of intestat
intestate
- inflection of intestare:
intestate f pl
intestāte
intestate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of intestar combined with te