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
The work on probate inventories suggests that historians ask whose privacy is changing and what privacy meant in any particular historical context.
They were prepared in conjunction with probate, theoretically for all individuals leaving moveable goods worth £5 or more.
In 1904, his estate was probated at under 121,000 pounds sterling.
The fender was probated and stood as his will.
Lastly, of course, a probate inventory represented only a stage in, not the end of the process of probate.
Parish registers and probate documents almost always noted a woman's marital status but very rarely noted her occupation.
By the time her will was probated in 1973, her estate was valued at $10,000,000.
The probate records of army captains, lieutenants and surgeons burst with popular histories, travel narratives, classical texts, poetry and the latest works of fiction.
