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Definition of Probate court
1. Noun. A court having jurisdiction over the probate of wills and the administration of estates.
Definition of Probate court
1. Noun. A court (gloss tribunal) whose function is to administer estates (gloss property of a decedent) and prove wills ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Probate Court
Literary usage of Probate court
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"714*] *A kindred defense to this is, that the probate court of New Orleans, in
1841, duly approved of the sales made by Reif and Cbew as executors, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The Legislature was not in any manner called upon to give its opinion of the
powers of the probate court, but it was in fact making a general system of laws ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"And the jurisdiction of the probate court of Ohio pronouncing the judgment of
probate there is not seriously questioned. The common and statute law, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"Probate jurisdiction in Kansas is vested in a court to be known as the probate
court, which is established in each county throughout the state. ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"17(33, 1764, 1706, 1771, 3206, give the county court the general jurisdiction of
a probate court and original jurisdiction in civil cases when the matter in ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"The circuit court may make such order or decree as the judge of probate ought to
have made, and remit the case to the probate court for further proceedings. ..."
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