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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Intestacy \In*tes"ta*cy\, n. [From Intestate.]
   The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made
   a valid will. --Blackstone.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

intestacy
    n 1: the situation of being or dying without a legally valid
         will