Definition of Probates

1. Noun. (plural of probate) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of probate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Probates

1. probate [v] - See also: probate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Probates

probably
probacy
probal
probality
proball
proband
probands
probang
probangs
probasin
probate
probate court
probate courts
probate will
probated
probates (current term)
probating
probation
probation officer
probational
probationally
probationary
probationary period
probationer
probationers
probationership
probationerships
probations
probationship
probationships

Literary usage of Probates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"It was afterwards vested in the court of probates, consisting of a single judge, and so continued until 1787, when surrogates were authorized to grant ..."

2. Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Simon Fraser (1797)
"For probates of wills, if the goods and chattels are under the value of 201. ... But if the probates or letters of admini ft ration be granted to the widow, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Louisiana Supreme Court, Louisiana Court of Errors and Appeals, Merritt M. Robinson (1845)
"THE JUDGE OF THF COURT OF probates OF ST. JAMES. A rule supported by affidavit, taken on a Judge of a Court of probates, to show cause why a mandamus should ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"ON probates AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. paper, whereon any probate of any will or letters of ad- '«fs.of ad- ministration shall be engrossed, printed, ..."

5. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Connecticut Council of Safety, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1880)
"... five pence one farthing and the incident charges arising thereon ; taking the direction of the court of probates for the district of Hartford therein. ..."

6. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"COLONIAL probates ACT, 1892. Order in Council, dated 23rd October, 1905, applying the Colonial probates Act, 1892, to the Orange River Colony. ..."

7. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Council of Safety (Conn.), Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1885)
"... taking the direction of the. court of probates for the district of Stamford therein. Upon the memorial of Hezekiah Weed, of Stamford in Fair- field ..."

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