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intestable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English testable English intestable From in- + testable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not legally permitted to make a will, as by reason of being under the age of majority or mentally incompetent.
    • 1838, S. Toller and F. Whitmarsh, The Law of Executors and Administrators, 7th ed., Saunders & Benning (London), ch. 1: Of Wills and Codicils, p. 11, Outlaws also, though merely in civil cases, are intestable, in respect to their personal property, while their outlawry subsists.

Relateds

intestability · intestate · intestacy · intestableness

Translations (1)

fi testamentintekokelvoton (not legally permitted to make a will)