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admit
2 : to allow to be entered or offered [admitted the document into evidence] [ a will to probate] vi : to make acknowledgment used with to [s to the murder]
abate
of the bequests and devises may have to be abated to make up the deficit. Under the Uniform Probate Code, property in the estate that is not specifically given under the will abates first, residuary devises abate
prove
or: prov·en [prü-vən] prov·ing 1 : to test the truth, validity, or genuineness of [ a will at probate] 2 a : to establish the existence, truth, or validity of [the charges were never proved in court]
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Surrogate's office
Surrogate's office : an office in New Jersey which carries out duties in probate, the administration of estates, and the guardianship of minors
Contentious business
business when there is no such contest; the latter term is most frequently used in connection with obtaining probate or administra-tion, but is also applied to business in the Chancery Division where there are no facts in
Alimony
alimony, which is allotted to a wife after final decree. Alimony is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Probate and Divorce Division. The Court may direct its payment either to the wife herself or to a trustee
Construction, Court of
the case may be, is called the Court of Construction with regard to wills, as opposed to its Probate, etc., Division, whose duty is to decide whether an instrument be a will at all.
Colligenda bona, letters ad
Colligenda bona, letters ad. In default of relatives or creditors to administer, the Probate Court may grant letters to collect the goods of the deceased, and may give the grantee the full
Chambers
By R. S.C. 1883, Ord. LIV., the masters in the King Bench Division, and the registrars in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division may exercise the jurisdiction of a judge in chambers (subject to appeal to a
Cessate grants
de bonis non-administrators by being a re-grant of all the estate remaining, and by being a grant of probated and not of administration with the Will annexed, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 17, para 863, p. 455.
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