How then will the case stand, if a man who dies intestate makes gifts of freedom by codicils, and on the intestacy no one accepts the inheritance?
Family heirs succeed even though ignorant of their title, and they can take upon an intestacy even though insane, because whenever the law vests property in a person, even when he is ignorant of his title, it equally vests it in him if insane.
Here again was the old contention that had appeared in the earlier controversy over the Connecticut Intestacy Act.
The decision in favor of Clarke was equivalent to a recognition of Connecticut's Intestacy Law.
I regard, therefore, the Roman horror of Intestacy as a monument of a very early conflict between ancient law and slowly changing ancient sentiment on the subject of the Family.
If this be the true reading of the general sentiment on the point, it explains to some extent the singular horror of Intestacy which always characterised the Roman.
The devolution of real estate in case of intestacy should be assimilated to that of personal estate.
In case of intestacy it would be often a real advantage to take the whole property for the State, if there were no relations within the third or fourth degree, i.
The operation I mean was that which the Real Estate Intestacy Bill aimed at accomplishing, and the discussion on this bill I heard in the House of Commons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intestacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
