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Probate, Court of, a tribunal established by the Court of Probate Act, 1857, to which the former jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in testamentary matters was transferred. By Jud. Act, 1873, it was merged in the Supreme Court of Judicature, q.v. See WILLS....
probate court
probate court : a court that has jurisdiction over the probate of wills and administration of estates and sometimes over the affairs of minors and persons adjudged incompetent compare orphans' court ...
probate
probate [Latin probatum, neuter of probatus, past participle of probare to test, approve, prove] 1 a : the process of proving in a court of competent jurisdiction (as a probate court) that an instrument is the valid last will and testament of a deceased person ;broadly : the process of administering an estate b : the judicial determination that a will is valid 2 : the officially authenticated copy of a probated will 3 a : probate court b : matters that fall under the jurisdiction of a probate court vt pro·bat·ed pro·bat·ing 1 : to establish (a will) as valid through probate 2 a : to put (a convicted offender) on probation b : to replace (a sentence) with probation ...
Prerogative courts
Prerogative courts. The two archbishops have each of them a prerogative Court. The appeal is to the Privy Council, 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 92. See now Jud. Act, 1925, ss. 20 (a), 107, replacing Court of Probate Act 1857, s. 4, which took away their jurisdiction in testamentary matters, 2 Steph. Com.Distinct tribunals for the establishment of wills and administration of the assets of men dying either with or without wills are variously called 'Preroga-tive Courts', 'Probate Courts', 'Surrogate Courts' and 'Orphan's Courts'....
Surrogate's Court
Surrogate's Court : a probate court in New York ...
Probation
Probation, connotes a period of trial, Ajudhia Nath Dhingra v. Union of India, 1976 Sim LJ 357.Means a sort of 'locus pententiae' to the employer to observe the work, ability, efficiency, sincerity, and competence of the servant and if he is found not suitable for the post, the master reserves the right to dispense with his service without anything more during or at the end of the prescribed period which is styled as period of probation, Parshotam Lal Dhingra v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 36: 1958 (1) LLJ 544: 1958 SCJ 217.Probation. (1) Proof generally. (2) Suspension of a final appointment to an office until a person tempo-rarily appointed (who is called a 'probationer') has by his conduct proved himself to be fit to fill it. (3) Treatment of an offender under the (English) Probation of Offenders Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 17).By s. 1 of this Act where any person is charged before a Court of summary jurisdiction and the Court thinks that the charge is proved, but is of opinion that, ha...
Administrator
Administrator, means the Administrator as referred to in clause (a) of section 2 of the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2002 (58 of 2002). [Income Tax Act, 1961, s. 80C(8)(i)].Administrator means a person appointed by competent authority to administer the estate of a deceased person when there is no executor. [Indian Succession Act (39 of 1925) s. 2(a)]--he to whom the property of a person dying intestate, or without executors appointed, accepting, or surviving, is committed by the Probate Court (now the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice). (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 56(3). By the (English) Court of Probate Act,1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77) (re-enacted in (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 175), 'Administration' includes all letters of administration of the effects of deceased persons, whether with or without the will annexed, and whether granted for ge...
Arches, Court of
Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in the church of Saint Mary-le-Bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus), so named from the steeple, which is raised upon pillars, built archwise. It was formerly held, as also were the other principal Spiritual Courts, in the hall belonging to the College of Civilians, commonly called Doctors' Commons. It is now held at the Church House, Westminster. Its proper jurisdiction is only over the 13 peculiar parishes belonging to the Archbishop in London, but the office of Dean of the Arches having been for a long time united to that of the Archbishiop's Official Principal, the Dean of the Arches, in right of such added office, receives and determines appeals from the sentences of all Inferior Ecclesiastical Courts within the province. There was formerly an appeal to the king in Chancery, or to a Court of De...
Probate
Probate, means the copy of a Will certified under the seal of a court of competent jurisdiction with a grant of administration to the estate of the testator. [Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), s. 2 (f)]Official proof of a will. This is obtained by the executor in all Probate Division of the High Court of Justice, and is either in common form, where the will is undisputed and quite regular, or per testes, is solemn form of law, where it is disputed or irregular. When the will is proved, the original is deposited in the registry of the Court, a copy being delivered to the executor with a certificate of its having been made out under seal of the court, all which together is usually styled the probate, consult Tristram and Coote, Prob. Pr., 17th Edn....
Royal Courts of Justice
Royal Courts of Justice, the statutory name, by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 222, replacing s. 28 of the (English) Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879, of the Law Courts, on the north side of the Strand, between St. Clement Danes Church and Chancery Lane, in which the business of the Supreme Court is transacted. The erection of buildings for bringing together into one place 'all the superior Courts of Law and Equity, the Probate and Divorce Courts and the court of Admiralty' recommended by a Royal Commission in 1858 was authorized by Parliament in 1865 by the (English) Courts of Justice Building Act and the Courts of Justice Concentration (Site) Act (28 & 29 Vict. cc. 48, 49). The Royal Courts were formally opened by Queen Victoria on the 4th of December, 1882, and opened for business on the 11th of January, 1883, the Judges' Chambers and other offices having been opened for business in January, 1880. Prior to the opening, the Chancery Division of the High Court occupied courts at Lincoln's Inn,...
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