The estates of persons dying intestate are distributed analogous to the custom of gavelkind in Kent.
The heir at law of such intestate shall be entitled to and receive a double portion or two shares of the real estate left by such intestate, (saving the widow's right of dower.
Since administrators of goods of people dying intestate who fail to pay the creditors of the deceased often can't pay the debts from their own money, the people (who are not creditors) receiving the goods shall pay the creditors.
It iz not necessary nor possible that every citizen should hav exactly an equal portion of land and goods, but the laws of such a state should require an equal distribution of intestate estates, and bar all perpetuities.
In New England, intestate estates desend to all the children or other heirs in equal portions, except to the oldest son, who haz two shares.
It was definitely stated that the existing goods and chattels would not both pay his debts and fulfil his will, a statement which cannot be regarded as consistent with the assertion that he died intestate (Rot.
No Papist could purchase a freehold or lease for more than thirty years, or inherit from an intestate Protestant, nor from an intestate Catholic, nor dwell in Limerick or Galway, nor hold an advowson, nor buy an annuity for life.
In what relationship this Matthew may stand to the intestateis to be discovered.
Once in possession of the connection between the intestate John Haygarth and the Halliday family, Captain Paget's course was an easy one.
The Intestate Law was in accordance with custom throughout New England.
The Connecticut Intestate Act was opposed to the English law according to the first two interpretations, but not according to the third.
Again, there was another aspect from which to view the annulment of the Connecticut Intestate Law.
While this case dragged on, it was again intimated to Connecticut that the surrender of her charter, or at least the substitution of an explanatory charter, might be an acceptable price for the royal confirmation of her Intestate Law.
Thus, in the English law of inheritance, until the passing of the Inheritance Act 1833, an estate belonging to a deceased intestate would pass to his uncle or aunt, to the exclusion of his father or other lineal ancestor.
Forty-one states in America have inheritance tax laws (in 1915) which apply generally to property passing either by will or under the intestate laws of the state.
A proposal less crude and with strong reasons of social expediency in its favor is to limit the right of intestate inheritance to persons that have been in essential economic and social relations with the deceased.
But the right of intestate inheritance by distant relatives is one that stands on weak social foundations.
A truer test to-day of the proper limits for intestate inheritance is whether the wish to provide for these heirs has furnished the motive for the producing and preserving of the wealth.
We are informed that Joanna, the wife of Andreas, having succeeded to her husband's estate, has died intestate without heirs.
Intestate property of widow claimed by the State, v.
Sidenote: Property of a widow dying intestate and without heirs to be claimed for the State.
Sidenote: African claims to succeed to estate of an intestate countryman.
Men who did not make a will risked the danger of an intestate and unconfessed death.
The personal property of a man dying intestatenow went to the church as a trust for the dead man's imperiled soul instead of to the man's lord.
Smoot who died intestate leaving as her only heirs at law three children: John D.
Smoot died intestate survived by widow and three children, his only heirs at law: Julia B.
Smoot died unmarried and intestate leaving their three-fourths interests to heirs at law, their three nephews, John D.
Smoot who died unmarried and intestate leaving sole heirs at law and next of kin four nephews and one niece, named above.
The personal property of a man dyingintestate now went to the church as a trust for the dead man's immperiled soul instead of to the man's lord.
So, after a struggle of many years, the administration of the goods of an intestate was taken out of the hands of the spiritual courts, and rightfully given to the family of the deceased.
After the emancipation of a slave, he was bound to render certain services to his former master as patron, and if the freedman died intestate his property reverted to his patron.
If the father die intestate the dead's part goes to the children as next of kin.
The Intestate Moveable Succession (Scotland) Act enlarges a Scottish mother's rights of succession to the intestate moveable estate of her children.
Social expediency will limit the right of intestate inheritance to persons in essential economic and social relations.
But the right of intestate inheritance by distant relatives is one that stands on weak social foundations to-day.
When a Roman citizen died intestate or leaving no valid Will, his descendants or kindred became his heirs according to a scale which will be presently described.
We have further the text of the celebrated clause in the Twelve Tables by which the Testamentary power was expressly recognised, and the clauses regulating Intestate Succession have also been preserved.
I think, however, if we look a little closely at the pre-Justinianean scale of Intestate Succession, we shall discover the key to the mystery.
It is probable, à priori, that it was something in the rules of Intestate Succession which caused this vehement preference for the distribution of property under a Testament over its distribution by law.
The term Hæres is no more emphatically used of the Intestate than of the Testamentary Heir, for the manner in which a man became Hæres had nothing to do with the legal character he sustained.
The Works of old Time to collect was his pride, Till Oblivion dreaded his Care: Regardless of Friends, intestate he dy'd, So the Rooks and the Crows were his Heir.
As Henry died intestate his library became the property of his father, and passed into the royal collection which was given to the British Museum by George II.
O, why did not the reverend intestatemarry his housekeeper, and make a will, like other honest citizens, and leave my Charlotte to walk the obscure byways of honest poverty with me?
The search for the heir-at-law of a man who has died intestatewithin the last ten years.
Now, with regard to intestate estates, I am told that the House of Lords will never repeal the law of primogeniture; but I do not want them to repeal the law of primogeniture in the sense entertained by some people.
He granted to the king the goods of intestate clergymen; the revenues of vacant benefices; the revenues of all non-residents [b].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intestate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
