(n.) The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you don’t make a will, he won’t get your share as it will go to a member of your family under the intestacy rules.
(2) Assuming that your estate would be worth more than £250,000, the intestacy rules – which come into play when someone dies without leaving a will – say that your children would get everything, divided equally between them.
(3) You then need to clear any unpaid debts and distribute the estate, which means giving any property, money or possessions to the beneficiaries as dictated by the will, or by intestacy laws if there is no will.
(4) All gifts left to a spouse or civil partner in a will – or inherited under the intestacy rules – are free of inheritance tax.
(5) If there is no will, or it's invalid, the laws of intestacy apply and the person entitled to take responsibility for the estate is usually the surviving spouse, civil partner or nearest relative.
(6) He also pointed out that the duchy operated as the harbour authority in the Scilly Isles and had the role of dealing with intestacy and company failure in the County of Cornwall, which were effectively public roles.
(7) One of the initial proposals that was not included in the agreed changes was to include co-habitees in the intestacy rules to reflect living circumstances in today’s society,” says James Antoniou, head of wills for the Co-operative Legal Services.
(8) If someone dies without a will, there is a set of intestacy rules that determine who gets what.
Intestate
Definition:
(a.) Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate.
(a.) Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
(n.) A person who dies without making a valid will.
Example Sentences:
(1) As many tests as possible had to be performed in assessing jejunum and ileum function as the intestional abnormalities were not limited to one site.
(2) The disturbance of liver cells in enterotoxemia induced by intestional obstruction was clear and needed our attention in the management of intestional obstruction from this animal model.
(3) Within 1 h, female rats excreted into the intesting via the bile greater than 95% of the injected dose of [3-H]aldosterone, compared to 47% in the male rats.
(4) The effect of harmaline on phenylalanine uptake by the intesting is duplicated by other psychotropic indole analogues.
(5) Both activated and nonactivated macrophages ingest IgG-coated erythrocytes [E(IgG)]; activated cells intest 1.5-2 times as man E(IgG) as do nonactivated macrophages.
(6) Berkeley also wants parliament to remove the prince's right to claim legacies from ordinary people who die intestate in Cornwall.
(7) Under the old rules, if a spouse died intestate and there were no children, then the first £450,000 of the estate, plus half of the rest, went to the surviving spouse.
(8) • Tomorrow's Guardian Money section is a "cost of dying" special, covering everything from probate and writing a will to dying intestate and inheritance tax
(9) Insurance and wills and testaments and executors and codicils and things intestate.
(10) Under Swedish inheritance law this meant that, because he died intestate, she was entitled to nothing.
(11) Acetylcholine mustard (N-2-chloroethyl-N-methyl-2-acetoxyethylamine), a potent muscarinic agonist, binds virtually irreversibly to muscarinic receptors in longitudinal muscle strips from guinea-pig small intesting, as shown by the inhibition of the binding of E13-H]-propylbenzilycholine mustard ([3-H-PrBCM), an affinity label for the muscarinin receptor.
(12) The lipid-containing bacteriophage PR4 is of special intest because it can replicate in various gram-negative bacteria, including Escherichia coli, that carry one of a group of drug resistance plasmids.
(13) In high intestity light it reflects the dark limiting step in the reoxidation mechanism of System II primary acceptors.
(14) The tussle between her and Larsson's family continues, and she feels bound to highlight the legal morass unmarried people face when their partner dies intestate.
(15) Such events are briefly described as background information to a discussion of how selection of proteins might take place during transport across the cellular barriers concerned, namely the yolk sac splanchnopleur, chorio-allantoic placenta, and small intesting.
(16) If you are married or in a civil partnership and die intestate, the surviving spouse or civil partner gets everything if there are no children.
(17) In the small intesting of the suckling rat these two processes appear to be segregated, selective uptake occurring in the proximal half and non-selective uptake occurring in the distal half.
(18) 5'-Nucleotidase prepared from muscle of small intesting of pig is strongly inhibited by nucleoside di- and triphosphates and their phosphonate analogs.
(19) The results of these studies, although intesting, are impractical for application to human subjects.
(20) Congenital malformation of the submucous plexus (Neuronal Intestional Dysplasia Typ B or NID B).