Associations to the word «Intestate»

Wiktionary

INTESTATE, adjective. Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
INTESTATE, adjective. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will.
INTESTATE, noun. (legal) A person who dies without making a valid will.

Dictionary definition

INTESTATE, adjective. Having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will; "he died intestate"; "intestate property".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke