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Without a will
Answer for the clue "Without a will ", 9 letters:
intestate
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Word definitions for intestate in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death. 2 Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will. n. (context legal English) A person who dies without making a valid will.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intestate \In*tes"tate\, n. (Law) A person who dies without making a valid will. --Blackstone.
Usage examples of intestate.
He was presumed to have died intestate, and his fortune was divided, three-quarters of it going to his brother Auguste, the remaining quarter to his sister, Mme.
He is said to be the town clerk, a justice of the peace, mayor of the city of New Haven, an office held at the will of the legislature, chief judge of the court of common pleas for New Haven county, a court of high criminal and civil jurisdiction wherein most causes are decided without the right of appeal or review, and sole judge of the court of probates, wherein he singly decides all questions of wills, settlement of estates, testate and intestate, appoints guardians, settles their accounts, and in fact has under his jurisdiction and care all the property real and personal of persons dying.
Grantham died intestate and his whole fortune together with the family jewels, came to me and my son.
If they say it was intestate, if somebody did knock me off about now, I guess her claim would be honored, if she'd dirty her paws reaching for my money.
There will be no nonsense about probate courts and dying intestate and a minor.