0 the legal process of deciding if a person's will has been made correctly and if the information it contains is correct:
Before probate can be granted, all business assets have to be identified and valued.
1 to prove that a person's will has been made correctly and that the information it contains is correct
2 the process of managing the property, money, etc. of someone who has died and giving it to the beneficiaries (= people who should receive it):
3 in the US, to go to court to receive the authority to manage the property, money, etc. of someone who has died and give it to the beneficiaries:
probate a will/an estate
Schedule 2 also continues in force provisions for the registration of colonial probates and maintenance orders, and those relating to a dominion register of companies.
Perhaps we should also have quick and cheap probates in uncontested cases.
A is, at the time the will is probated, an 85-year-old woman.
Winniett was a justice of the peace, a collector of customs and excise duties, a judge of probates and wills and a registrar of deeds.
His probates had varying acquisition and incubation periods, up to 50 years of non-active learning.
Using probate inventory material the members of this social group are identi®ed, and their habits as consumers examined.
He served as registrar of probates for the county.
The probate records of army captains, lieutenants and surgeons burst with popular histories, travel narratives, classical texts, poetry and the latest works of fiction.
