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Probate

noun

A judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate. Synonym: probate will.

The act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements.

verb

Put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence.

Establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents).

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"Probate" Quotes from Famous Books

... the death duties which had been collected in England during 1910, and it gave a list of about twenty estates on which large sums had been paid. The list included the names of the deceased and also the amounts on which probate duty had been paid. I decided to commit these names and figures to memory and to take an occasion the next day to reel them off ...

— An Adventure With A Genius • Alleyne Ireland

... wuz, and I'll be eternally gol durned if he ain't a-suin' the estate in the probate court now ...

— A Little Book of Profitable Tales • Eugene Field

... the door off its hinges and burst into James Langley's room. He was bending eagerly over the fireplace. Kennedy made a flying leap at him. Just enough of the will was left unburned to be admitted to probate. ...

— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve

... himself up and faced the invaders sternly—"I have only this very morning deposited with the probate court certain documents making very plain the identity of this young man. Without the shadow of a doubt he is the only living descendant of Roderick Ralestone and his wife, Valerie St. Jean de Roche. I have also sworn out ...

— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton

... appointing Jaffery and myself joint executors and trustees for his wife and the child that was to come, among his private papers in the Louis XV cabinet in the drawing-room. We had consulted his bankers and put matters in a solicitor's hands with a view to probate. Everything was in order. We found his own personal bills and receipts filed, his old letters tied up in bundles and labelled, his contracts, his publisher's returns, his lease, his various certificates neatly docketed. It was the private desk of a careful business man, rather than ...

— Jaffery • William J. Locke

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