Intestate succession

Definition
1  : the transmission of property or property interests of a decedent as provided by statute as distinguished from the transfer in accordance with the decedent's will
also
: the operation of such statutory provisions in transmitting intestate property <would take the property by intestate succession>
2  in the civil law of Louisiana : property that is not disposed of by will but by operation of statute <who presents himself to claim an intestate succession ­Louisiana Civil Code>



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