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Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death. examples
Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will. examples
plural intestates
(law) A person who dies without making a valid will. quotations examples
the surplusages of intestates […] after the expiration of one full year from the death of the intestate is to be distributed : one - third to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead to their representatives : that is , their lineal descendants
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press