Sentence examples for case of intestacy from inspiring English sources

In case of intestacy, the church favoured distribution among family members of equal nearness to the decedent.

These laws, while providing unpartitioned inheritance in the case of intestacy, most often left unimpaired the power to provide for multiple succession by will and the power of alienation by sale.

However, Section 212 of the Indian Succession Act does not apply in the case of intestacy of a Hindu, Mohammedan, Sikh, Buddhist, Jaina, Christian, or Parsi (Mint 2012).

"This means his estate was subject to the rules of intestacy, so that a portion will automatically go to his children, thus triggering an IHT charge that would have been avoided had his entire estate been left to his wife".

Under New York State laws of intestacy, for example, if the husband dies leaving a wife and one child, his spouse gets $4,000 and one-half the remainder of the estate.

He or they, as the case may be, is or are determined by the decedent's testament, or by the law of intestacy, or by a combination of both.

"For the overwhelming majority there will be a will or an immediate relative to inherit through the laws of intestacy.

Primogeniture as the rule of intestacy was finally abolished by the Administration of Estates Act in 1925.

The rules of intestacy changed in October 2014 and are now much more in favour of the surviving spouse, Myers says.

In contrast to Anglo-American law, the assets of the decedent pass directly to the heirs, who are determined by the rules of intestacy or by testamentary disposition.

Then the option of accepting or declining devolved upon the person or persons next in line under the will or the rules of intestacy.