Intestatus Decedit
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
QUI AUT OIVI. nino testamentum non fecit aut non juri fecit, aut id quod fecerat ruptum irritumve factum est, aut nemo ex eo haeres exstitit. He dies intestate who either has made no will at all, or has not made it legally, or whose will which he had made has been annulled or become ineffectual, or from whom there is no living heir.
Inst. 3. 1, pr.; Dig. 38. 16. 1; Id. 50. 16. 64.