What's the difference between intestate and testate?

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).

Testate


Definition:

  • (a.) Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate.
  • (n.) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A psychiatrist may be asked to assess the competency of a testator when he or she is planning to create or modify a will or after the death of a testator when the will is challenged.
  • (2) The finding by a court that the author of a will (the testator) lacked mental capacity or was subject to undue influence at the time the will was executed can invalidate the will.
  • (3) On examination it is found to be intertwined with the testator's attitudes toward death.

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