intestacy

From intestate +‎ -acy.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛstəsi/

intestacy (countable and uncountable, plural intestacies)

1. (law) The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will.

• testacy

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intestacy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “intestacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cystatine