† untestateadj.
Intestate.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [adjective] > leaving a valid will > not
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c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 20 Þe godys of here tenauntys þat dyen vntestate.
1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 138 Not willinge to dye untestate,..I provide..this my last will.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 89 If they dyed vntestate the ordinary course of the law..was obserued.
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood iv. 65 It was his fathers lucke of late to die Untestate.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas (Hence in Hexham.)
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