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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King