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Renounce, to give up a right. An executor who declines to take probate of the will of his testator is said to 'renounce' probate. Where any person, after 1st January, 1858, renounces probate of the will of which he is appointed executor, his right shall wholly cease, and go and devolve as if he had not been appointed-Court of Probate Act, 1857, s. 79. Whenever an executor appointed in a will survives the testator, but dies without taking probate, or an executor named in a will is cited to take probate and does not appear, his right shall cease, and go in like manner as if he had not been appointed, Court of Probate Act, 1858, s. 16.

To give up or abandon formerly (a right or interest), to disclaim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1299.