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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Probate  \Pro"bate\,  n.  [From  L.  probatus  p.  p.  of  probare  to 
  prove.  See  {Prove}.] 
  1.  Proof.  [Obs.]  --Skelton. 
 
  2.  (Law) 
  a  Official  proof;  especially,  the  proof  before  a 
  competent  officer  or  tribunal  that  an  instrument 
  offered,  purporting  to  be  the  last  will  and  testament 
  of  a  person  deceased,  is  indeed  his  lawful  act  the 
  copy  of  a  will  proved,  under  the  seal  of  the  Court  of 
  Probate,  delivered  to  the  executors  with  a  certificate 
  of  its  having  been  proved.  --Bouvier.  --Burrill. 
  b  The  right  or  jurisdiction  of  proving  wills. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Probate  \Pro"bate\,  v.  t. 
  To  obtain  the  official  approval  of  as  of  an  instrument 
  purporting  to  be  the  last  will  and  testament;  as  the 
  executor  has  probated  the  will 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Probate  \Pro"bate\,  a. 
  Of  or  belonging  to  a  probate,  or  court  of  probate;  as  a 
  probate  record. 
 
  {Probate  Court},  or  {Court  of  Probate},  a  court  for  the 
  probate  of  wills. 
 
  {Probate  duty},  a  government  tax  on  property  passing  by  will 
  [Eng.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  probate 
  n  1:  a  judicial  certificate  saying  that  a  will  is  genuine  and 
  conferring  on  the  executors  the  power  to  administer  the 
  estate  [syn:  {probate  will}] 
  2:  the  act  of  proving  that  an  instrument  purporting  to  be  a 
  will  was  signed  and  executed  in  accord  with  legal 
  requirements 
  v  1:  put  a  convicted  person  on  probation  by  suspending  his 
  sentence 
  2:  establish  the  legal  validity  of  as  of  a  will  etc 




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