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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
Wills
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
Iddat
Iddat, means the time of probation which a divorced woman or widow must wait before she marries again in order to determine whether she
Warning of a Caveat
Warning of a Caveat, a notice to a person who has entered a caveat in the Probate branch of the High Court to appear and set forth his interest. Consult Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice.
Succession duties
of 1 per cent. payable by lineal ancestors or descendants, in cases where the duty on affidavit for probate had been paid; and the (English) Finance Act, 1894, by s. 1 directed that this duty should not
Royal Courts of Justice
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
Proctor
the abolition of the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in causes matrimonial and testamentary, the (English) Court of Probate Act, 1857 (2 & 21 Vict. c. 77), ss. 43, 105, 106, and c. 85, s. 69, awarded
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