intestate

adjective
🔊/ɪnˈtesteɪt/
🔊/ɪnˈtesteɪt/
(law法律)
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  1. not having made a will未留遗嘱的 (= a legal document that says what is to happen to a person’s property when they die)Topics Law and justicec2
    Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin intestatus, from in- ‘not’ + testatus ‘testified, witness’ (past participle of testari, from testis ‘a witness’).