单词 | intestate |
释义 | intestateadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Of a person: Not having made a will. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [adjective] > leaving a valid will > not intestate1377 untestatec1450 untested1570 intestant1673 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 134 Curatoures of holy kirke..dyeth intestate, and þanne þe bisshop entreth [etc.]. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 24 b Al bequestes and goodes of suche his frendes as dyed intestate. 1760 W. Emonson Idler 1 Mar. 65 He was the less mindful of his Dissolution, and died intestate. 1872 M. E. Braddon Robert Ainsleigh I. xvii. 314 My benefactress died intestate, without care or thought for the orphan youth she had adopted. b. transferred (after Latin intestāta senectūs, Juvenal i. 144). ΚΠ 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 69 Hence sudden deaths, and age intestate spring. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires i. 11 Repletions, Apoplex, intestate Death. 2. Of things: Not disposed of by will; belonging to the estate of an intestate. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [adjective] > left by will > not unbequeathed1483 unbequothen?1484 unbequested1506 unlegated1520 intestatea1538 unlegacied1556 undevised1766 a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 85 The prerogatyfe gyven to the same byschope of canterbury wherby he hath..the admynystratyon of intestate godys. 1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) 48 The Roman Law concerning Intestate Succession. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) An intestate estate. Thesaurus » a. ‘That no man will take for a witness’ (Blount Glossogr. 1656). b. ‘Not proved by witness’ (Phillips, 1678). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory Ep. Ded. sig. a6 Sure I am if you have infirmities, they are intestate, unlesse you place your owne Conscience for a witnesse. B. n. One who dies without making a will. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > testator > one who leaves no will intestate1658 intestator1699 1658 tr. E. Coke Reports 38 b The next and most faithful friends of the intestate. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) There are two kinds of Intestates; one that makes no Will at all; another that makes a Will and Executors, and they refuse. 1747 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. I. 483 We find in Glanvil's time, all the goods and chattels of intestates belonged to the king or immediate lord. 1865 Sat. Rev. 7 Jan. 18/1 Intestates of this class. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1377 |
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