intestatein a sentence
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She died intestate.
intestate = without a will
- intestate property
- The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth.† (source)
- Testate or intestate?† (source)
- She died intestate, so the property will be divided according to state intestacy statutes.
- Wildeve had died intestate, and she and the child were his only relatives.† (source)
- So, the turnkey thought about it all his life, and died intestate after all.† (source)
- Soon the careless nobleman forgot all about his former mistress and the child she had borne him; then, as we know, he died intestate.† (source)
- For by her predeceasing her daughter the latter would have come into possession of the property, and, even had she only survived her mother by five minutes, her property would, in case there were no will, and a will was a practical impossibility in such a case, have been treated at her decease as under intestacy.† (source)
- "For example, then," continued Holgrave: "a dead man, if he happens to have made a will, disposes of wealth no longer his own; or, if he die intestate, it is distributed in accordance with the notions of men much longer dead than he.† (source)
- The first rule that we follow, says Mr. Kent, touching inheritance, is the following:—If a man dies intestate, his property goes to his heirs in a direct line.† (source)
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- Ralph, having died intestate, and having no relations but those with whom he had lived in such enmity, they would have become in legal course his heirs.† (source)
- Windy attorneys to their client woes, Airy succeeders of intestate joys, Poor breathing orators of miseries!† (source)
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