settings
The Idiot vocabulary
140 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.
help & settings
[x]
-
intestate
-
tags: [law]
► definition
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)
► uses
Uses:
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)
help with search