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probate estate
Matched in: Term probate estate
Administrator
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 … 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
Executor
will be personally liable for a devastavit, but will not be responsible for mere neglect to take out probate (Re Stevens, (1898) 1 Ch 162). See DEVASTAVIT. (2) By operation of law by virtue of his office … him with full power ovr the testator's chattels, Attenborough v. Solomon, 1913 AC 76, and by Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 1, extending and amending the Land Transfer Act, 1897, real property devolves in the same
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Probate duty
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administrator
administrator 1 : a person appointed by a probate court to manage the distribution of the assets in the estate of a person who has died without
probate
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Assent of personal representatives
now forms as essential link in the devolution, after death after 1925, of title to legal estate, the probate or grant of letters of administration (and not the will) being the only relevant link in the chain
Disclaimer
after such disclaimer has no interest in the estate. An heir-at-law could not disclaim. An executor may, before probate, 'disclaim,' or as it is more properly called, 'renounce,' the executorship, and the executor of an executor may,
Notice
s. 10 of the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925]. Notice of a previous assent or conveyance on the probate or grant of administration will constitute notice to subsequent purchasers under the same title (see Administration of Estates … under the (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 28, a trustee or personal representative acting for one trust or estate is not in the absence of fraud affected by notice obtained through acting for another. Subject to the
Title
That all the particular estates either were determined before 1926, or if no vesting deed, trust for sale, probate or grant of administration, vesting or order has been executed or granted or made since 1925, enabling the … lowest and most imperfect degree of title consists in the mere naked possession, or actual occupation of the estate, without any apparent right or any shadow of pretence of right to hold and continue such possession. 2.
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