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Definition of Letters testamentary

1. Noun. A legal document from a probate court or court officer informing you of your appointment as executor of a will and empowering you to discharge those responsibilities.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Letters Testamentary

Literary usage of Letters testamentary

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 (1887)
"The direction"in the will of John H. Barnett [389] that Abraham G. Barnett may act as executor, without giving bond or taking out letters testamentary, ..."

2. The Office of Surrogate, Surrogates, and Surrogates Courts, and Executors by Isaac Dayton (1861)
"(y) The remaining executor may retract his renunciation at any time before the grant of letters testamentary to his co-executors, or, in case all have ..."

3. Civil Procedure Reports: Containing Cases Under the Code of Civil Procedure by George D. McCarty, Henry Huffman Browne, Rufus Leonard Scott, James Manford Kerr, Percival Solomon Menken (1883)
"The Code provides that ancillary letters testamentary must be directed to some person specially appointed by the foreign will aa the executor thereof with ..."

4. New Probate Law and Practice: With Annotations and Forms for Use in Alaska by William Smithers Church, Curtis Hillyer (1920)
"CHAPTER I. letters testamentary AND OF ADMINISTRATION WITH THE WILL ANNEXED. ... Objection to issuance of letters testamentary. § 226. ..."

5. Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators by James Schouler (1915)
"Executors, how appointed by the Court; letters testamentary. ... letters testamentary are granted usually in connection with decreeing the probate of the ..."

6. The Government and Laws of the United States: Comprising a Complete and by William B. Wedgwood (1867)
"Who issues letters testamentary thereon 1 When must a lost will be ... Who may object to granting letters testamentary to the executor named in the will ? ..."

7. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1900)
"letters testamentary or of Administration. — The testimonial given by the ... In Minnesota " letters testamentary are in fact as well as in form an order of ..."

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