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Renounce

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,

Testamentary causes

Testamentary causes, proceedings in the Probate Branch of the High Court of Justice relating to the proving and validity of wills and intestacies, over

Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing s. 91 of the Court of Probate Act, 1857:- There shall, under the control and direction of the High Court, be provided safe and convenient

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Arches, Court of

Wheeler's Privy Council Law. The jurisdiction of the Court in testamentary matters was transferred to the Court of Probate (now the Probate Division) by the Court of Probate Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77). The

Citation

Citation, a summons to appear, applied particularly to process in the spiritual, probate, and matrimonial courts, see Tristram v. Coote, (English) Probate Pr. And Probate Rules, 1862 and (non-contentious) 1925; a

Intervention

was peculiar to the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts. It is now practised in actions or suits in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court. An intervener must take the cause as he finds it

Divisions of the High Court

into five Divisions, which were called the Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, the judges of these Divisions being for the most part those who sat in

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

letter

concerning captures on land and water "U.S. Constitution art. I"] letters of administration : a letter from a probate court that appoints the addressee administrator of an estate letters patent : a letter (as from a government)

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

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