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When a person dies without leaving a valid will, the question of who is entitled to property which forms part of their estate is determined by the rules of intestacy. Equally, where a person dies leaving a valid will(s), but they fail to dispose of all the property comprised in their estate by the will(s), what is not disposed of by will passes in accordance with the rules of intestacy. Where the deceased left no valid will, they are said to have died totally intestate. A deceased person is said to have died partially intestate where they die leaving a valid will which disposes of some of the property comprised in their estate.
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© 1997 Catherine Rendell
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Rendell, C. (1997). Total and Partial Intestacy. In: Law of Succession. Macmillan Law Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13510-3_6
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