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:
Slayer statutes provide a right of civil action to a victims successors for the purpose of directing the victims testate/intestate property away from the slayer.
Diatoms build a frustule from silica extracted from the surrounding water; radiolarians, foraminiferans, testate amoebae and silicoflagellates also produce a skeleton from minerals, called test in some groups.
Arcellinida species produce shells or tests from mineral particles or biogeonic elements (e.g. diatom frustules) and are thus commonly referred to as testate amoebae or shelled amoebae.
If there is a valid will which sets out the wishes of the testator, the estate is administered in terms of the law of testate succession.
Testate amoebae (or thecamoebians) is a polyphyletic group of ameboid protists characterized by the presence of a test.
Testate succession is governed by the general premise that the assets of the deceased are distributed in accordance with the provisions of the will.
Where the deceased dies leaving a valid will, the rules of testate succession apply.
Testate amoebae taxa are differentiated by their test characteristics and the type of pseudopodia (lobose, recticulose, or filose).
