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intestacy Law.|ɪnˈtɛstəsɪ|
[f. intestate a.: see -acy.]
The condition or fact of dying intestate or without having made a will.
1767Blackstone Comm. II. xxxii. 491 Mention is made of intestacy, in the old law before the conquest, as being merely accidental. 1827Jarman Powell's Devises II. 197 The construction was not induced by the motive of avoiding an intestacy. 1876Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. vi, The only occasion in which the eldest son is necessarily preferred to the younger children is in the case of intestacy. 1880Gladstone Sp. Ho. Com. 15 Mar., I am of opinion..that the present irregular scale of duty upon intestacy is excessive. |