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intestate

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Definition:
1. Without having made a valid will; without a will;
2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will;

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Soon the careless nobleman forgot all about his former mistress and the child she had borne him; then, as we know, he died intestate. P——' s son, born after his mother's marriage, found a true father in the generous man whose name he bore.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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