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Intastable vs Intestable - What's the difference?

intastable | intestable |

As adjectives the difference between intastable and intestable

is that intastable is incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavoury while intestable is not legally permitted to make a will, as by reason of being under the age of majority or mentally incompetent.

intastable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavoury.
    • (Grew)
    (Webster 1913)

    intestable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (legal) Not legally permitted to make a will, as by reason of being under the age of majority or mentally incompetent.
  • * 1838 , S. Toller and F. Whitmarsh, The Law of Executors and Administrators , 7th ed., Saunders & Benning (London), ch. 1: Of Wills and Codicils, p. 11,
    • Outlaws also, though merely in civil cases, are intestable , in respect to their personal property, while their outlawry subsists.

    Related terms

    * intestability * intestableness

    References

    *" intestable" at OneLook® Dictionary Search . * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.