intestate succession

collocation in English

meaningsofintestateandsuccession

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intestate
adjective[after verb]
uk
/ɪnˈtes.teɪt/us
/ɪnˈtes.teɪt/
If someone dies intestate, they have died without leaving instructions about who should receive ...
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succession
noun
uk
/səkˈseʃ.ən/us
/səkˈseʃ.ən/
a number of similar events or people that happen, exist, etc. after ...
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(Definition ofintestateandsuccessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This happened for instance if a nun inherited though anintestatesuccession.
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A right onintestatesuccessionis only a conditional right.
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You would really have to alter our laws ofintestatesuccession.
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In the following year the procedure was extended fromintestatesuccessionto include testate succession, and it has remained like that ever since.
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The position of the widow is strongly safeguarded by statute law so far as the law ofintestatesuccessionis concerned.
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These proposals will go a very long way in altering our present law ofintestatesuccession.
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The fact that some amendment to the law ofintestatesuccessionis now necessary seems to be agreed by all.
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Children of unmarried parents now have full rights ofintestatesuccessionand can succeed, for example, as an heir to an entailed estate.
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He recognises it as covering both testate andintestatesuccession.
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If we were excluding agricultural land, however defined, we should, broadly speaking, be enacting one law ofintestatesuccessionin the country and another in the town.
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For example, since 1952 the courts' powers have applied also to cases of intestacy, where the law ofintestatesuccessionhas failed to make adequate provision for the family.
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This granted her the same entitlements as the other children family over matters ofintestatesuccession.
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With regard to marriages in separation of property, the entire estate devolves according to the rules ofintestatesuccession.
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The balance thereafter must devolve according to rules ofintestatesuccession.
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They provided a scheme whereby the legal system governingintestatesuccessionwas determined simply by reference to skin colour.
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The gift would instead revert to the residuary estate or be granted under the law ofintestatesuccession.
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Women did not participate in theintestatesuccessionof deceased estates.
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The heir obtains ownership, or a lesser real right (such as an usufruct), only on delivery or transfer in pursuance of a testamentary disposition orintestatesuccession.
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However, this marriage does not entail any right ofintestatesuccessionfor the benefit of the surviving spouse and no matrimonial property is deemed to have existed between the spouses.
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Furthermore, he accidentally included a revocation clause in the new will, so its effect was that everything except the insurance policies devolved according to the law ofintestatesuccession.
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