0 (of a person) having left a will (= document saying who should get their possessions)
1 to die having left instructions about who should be given your property and money:
2 having died after leaving instructions about who should be given your property and money:
Where the deceased is testate and has a spouse, but does not refer to her in his will, she can apply for the compensation.
3 relating to someone who has died after leaving instructions about who should be given their property and money:
Does testate then re-enter into possession of the land?
For example, our law of testate succession gives unbridled testamentary licence.
It will apply to situations in which there may be inadequate testate provision as well as where there is an intestacy.
He recognises it as covering both testate and intestate succession.
It follows that a person can die partly testate and partly intestate, although there is a presumption in favour of testacy.
Normally, if the executor dies testate, the representation passes to the executor of the first executor's estate upon probate of the latter's own will.
Testate amoebae taxa are differentiated by their test characteristics and the type of pseudopodia (lobose, recticulose, or filose).
Where the deceased dies leaving a valid will, the rules of testate succession apply.