I thought it would be fun to write about succession today. You know it as the laws on inheritance, or mana. Let us be precise, so you will know. Testate and intestate succession is one of the ways ownership to property is transferred. Testate means that the person who died left a will; intestate means that he died without leaving a will. 

Simple, right? The dead person is called the decedent. The testator is a person who makes a will. An heir is a person who can inherit from a dead person. An heir can be compulsory, that means that he has an absolute right, by law, to inherit from the dead person; or voluntary, which means that a friend, a relative, or even a dog is given part of the estate of the dead person by way of a will.

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