intestate

Meanings

Adjective

  • Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
  • Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will.

Noun

  • A person who dies without making a valid will.

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Origin

  • From Latin intestātus, from in- + testātus.

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