Crossword clues for probate
probate
- Kind of court
- Contest of wills?
- Validation of a will
- Will validation
- The act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
- A judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
- Court for heirs
- Inheritor's headache
- Authenticate, legally
- Prove a will
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Probate \Pro"bate\, a. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.
Probate Court, or Court of Probate, a court for the probate of wills.
Probate duty, a government tax on property passing by will.
Probate \Pro"bate\, n. [From L. probatus, p. p. of probare to prove. See Prove.]
Proof. [Obs.]
--Skelton.-
(Law)
Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.
--Bouvier.
--Burrill.The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
Probate \Pro"bate\, v. t. To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"official proving of a will," c.1400, from Latin probatum "a thing proved," neuter of probatus "tried, tested, proved," past participle of probare "to try, test, prove" (see prove).
1560s, "to prove," from probate (n.) or from Latin probatus, past participle of probare. Specific sense of "prove the genuineness of a will" is from 1792. Related: Probated; probating.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) The legal process of verifying the legality of a will. 2 (context legal English) A copy of a legally recognised and qualified will. 3 (short for probate court English) 4 (context obsolete English) proof vb. (context transitive English) To establish the legality of (''a will'').
WordNet
n. a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate [syn: probate will]
the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
v. put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence
establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
Wikipedia
Probate is the legal process whereby a will is "proved" in a court and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased.
The granting of probate is the first step in the legal process of administering the estate of a deceased person, resolving all claims and distributing the deceased person's property under a will. A probate court decides the legal validity of a testator's (person's) will and grants its approval, also known as granting probate, to the executor. The probated will then becomes a legal instrument that may be enforced by the executor in the law courts if necessary. A probate also officially appoints the executor (or personal representative), generally named in the will, as having legal power to dispose of the testator's assets in the manner specified in the testator's will. However, through the probate process, a will may be contested.
Usage examples of "probate".
On the other hand, judicial proceedings in one State, under which inheritance taxes have been paid and the administration upon the estate has been closed, are denied full faith and credit by the action of a probate court in another State in assuming jurisdiction and assessing inheritance taxes against the beneficiaries of the estate, when under the law of the former State the order of the probate court barring all creditors who had failed to bring in their demand from any further claim against the executors was binding upon all.
Writing of the Probate and Divorce Court reminds me of a curious application for the postponement of a trial made by George Brown, who was as good a humorist as he was a lawyer.
It informed her in the curtest terms that Probate having at last been obtained, he should call at the Dower House some time during the following week, when he expected to be at Claycross, to explain to her the arrangements which had been made to enable her to draw her allowance as and when she should require it.
State laws can get the will through probate with drinks in both hands, an estate as simple as this one a few legal papers he can clean the whole thing up without a lot of.
Farrish concealed the new will, which gave everything to Marsha, and instead probated the old one, which divided the estate equally between Marsha and Neal.
But I thought it was already probated, I mean why in God's name would we contest it if we're the sole beneficiaries, equal shares and per stirpes and the rest of that nonsense?
There master Courtenay, sitting in his own chamber, gave his rede and master Justice Andrews, sitting without a jury in the probate court, weighed well and pondered the claim of the first chargeant upon the property in the matter of the will propounded and final testamentary disposition in re the real and personal estate of the late lamented Jacob Halliday, vintner, deceased, versus Livingstone, an infant, of unsound mind, and another.
She therefore looked about among the Prince's connexions for some one who would accept coheirship with herself, and whose family would be strong enough in position to carry through probate on such terms, but at the same time would be grateful enough to her and venal enough to further her aim of being reinstated at Court.
According to the will, the girl who was to benefit from Mrs Bridgetower's money must be chosen and launched on her course of study within a year of her benefactress' death: Mr Snelgrove was also to have the probate completed by that time, or else suffer the humiliation of seeing this juicy plum pass into the hands of another lawyer.
He is said to be the town clerk, a justice of the peace, mayor of the city of New Haven, an office held at the will of the legislature, chief judge of the court of common pleas for New Haven county, a court of high criminal and civil jurisdiction wherein most causes are decided without the right of appeal or review, and sole judge of the court of probates, wherein he singly decides all questions of wills, settlement of estates, testate and intestate, appoints guardians, settles their accounts, and in fact has under his jurisdiction and care all the property real and personal of persons dying.
But before this is done, a messenger is to be despatched bearing with him this manuscript, and also one or two letters from Good to his friends, and from myself to my brother George, whom it deeply grieves me to think I shall never see again, informing them, as our next heirs, that they are welcome to our effects in England, if the Court of Probate will allow them to take them {Endnote 22}, inasmuchas we have made up our minds never to return to Europe.
Everything that could be put into a discretionary trust had been put into it, so there would be very little to go through probate.
Mount wrote to me telling me that probate was going through without much difficulty, and Jack Edgecombe had taken fire at last and was enthusiastic about the new plan for the farm.
Pleasant’s body released, and he had told her that Gray was embroiled in the process of having Guy’s will probated, using his influence to hurry the process.
We were separated, and the probate and family court was in the process of cleaning me out, but good.