intestacy

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Maybe intestacy is an appropriate outcome rather than a set of testamentary instructions written nearly two generations ago.

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  1. The condition of dying intestate or without leaving a valid will; the leaving of property not disposed of, or not effectually disposed of, by will. Partial intestacy exists where some of the property is effectually bequeathed, but not all. The statute 31 Edward III. c. 11. provides that, in case of intestacy, the ordinary shall depute the nearest and most lawful friends of the deceased to administer his goods. Blackstone, Com., II. xxxii.

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  • In the second generation, his grand-daughters Rachel Martin of the elder branch and Marie Priaulx of the younger, contended at law for the inheritance after some intestacy: and a terrible lawsuit raged in Chancery for 150 years, between the Tuppers and the Benyons,—and was carried even to the House of Lords, being finally decided in my memory for the Benyons. —  My Life as an Author
  • The remaining Medisave balance, after the payment of the last medical bill, would be distributed by the Public Trustee to your family members under the intestacy laws for non-Muslims or the Muslim inheritance law for Muslims, if you had not made a nomination. —  www.hardwarezone.com.sg
  • Moreover, she said that the Queens ruling "implicitly suggested that had there been no Will, the surviving spouse might not have rights in intestacy to be the sole inheritor of his deceased spouse's estate," she wrote. —  PageOneQ.com Latest
  • For one thing, Surrogate Eugene E. Peckham decided to rely upon a presumption in favor of testate distribution and against intestacy. —  New York Probate & Estate Litigation Blog
  • Maybe intestacy is an appropriate outcome rather than a set of testamentary instructions written nearly two generations ago. —  New York Probate & Estate Litigation Blog
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