Thesaurus: probate

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1. n. Proof.
2. n. 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.
3. n. The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
4. a. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.
5. 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.
6. n. a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
7. n. the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
8. v. put a convicted person on probation by suspending their sentence
9. v. establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
10. 1. Proof. [Obs.] Skelton. 2. (Law) (a) 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. (b) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills. 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. [Eng.] 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.
11. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, aprobate record. Probate Court, or Court of Probate, a court for theprobate of wills.-- Probate duty, a government tax on property passing by will.[Eng.]
12. v:25/n:75 n. a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate n. 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