Usually means: Dying without a valid will.
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  1. intestate: Merriam-Webster
  2. intestate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intestate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intestate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intestate: Vocabulary.com
  6. intestate: Wordnik
  7. intestate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intestate: Wiktionary
  9. intestate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intestate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intestate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intestate: Dictionary.com
  13. intestate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Intestate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Intestate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. intestate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. intestate: Rhymezone
  18. Intestate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. intestate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. intestate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. intestate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. intestate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Intestate: Wordnik
  24. intestate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. intestate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. intestate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. intestate: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. Intestate: Investopedia
  12. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. Intestate: Legal dictionary
  14. intestate: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  16. Intestate: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  17. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  18. intestate: Finance-Glossary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intestate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. INTESTATE, INTESTATE, INTESTATE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. intestate: Genealogy Glossary

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  1. intestate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
adjective:  Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will.
noun:  (law) A person who dies without making a valid will.

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