intestable

intestable
(in-tè-sta-bl') adj.
Terme de droit romain. Qui ne peut être appelé en témoignage, à cause de quelque défaut qui lui ôte ce droit.
   Qui est privé du droit de tester.
   Ils [les empereurs] en vinrent jusqu'à leur ôter [aux donatistes] la disposition de leurs biens, et à les rendre intestables, BOSSUET Polit. VII, III, 10.
   On ne pouvait toucher le criminel sans être souillé ou intestable, MONTESQ. Esp. XXIV, 18.
   Lat. intestabilis, de in.... 1, et testari, attester, tester.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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