Law. [f. TESTATE a., after INTESTACY.] The state of being testate; the condition of leaving a valid will at death.
1864. in Webster.
1875. Poste, Gaius, II. Comm. (ed. 2), 229. Contra-tabular possession was sometimes equivalent to intestacy, sometimes to partial testacy.
1880. Gladstone, Sp. Ho. Comm., 15 March. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has treated testacies and intestacies, as if they were something like equal.
1885. Law Rep., 29 Ch. D. 278. The suit settles as regards him the question of testacy or intestacy.
