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intestacy

intestacy pl: -cies 1 : the state of dying intestate :

Any property that can be inherited; anything that passes by intestacy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 730. The enumeration of

by will or esp. by operation of law see also intestacy, unworthy compare ancestor, devisee, legatee, next of kin, successor apparent

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In regard to property, however, under any disposition or an intestacy the child retains his status as a child of his

Litt. 78; Bro. Abr, 'Age.' For an infant's rights upon intestacy. See INTESTACY. See also EDUCATION; CHILDREN. The (English) Age of

severance by act of law, e.g., upon the devolution on intestacy of freeholds, and leaseholds which were comprised in one lease,

comprehended in infinitum. A person who, under the laws of intestacy, is entitled to receive an intestate decedents property, esp. real

them as legitimate so as to inherit realty upon an intestacy, Birtwhisle v. Vardill, (1840) 7 Cl &Fin 895. As to

dying intestate, The expression merely means 'in the case of intestacy of a Hindu male', Fateh Bibi v. Charan Dass, AIR

shall, for all purposes of distribution and division in an intestacy under that s., be treated as two persons. Under s.

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