Probate Definition

prōbāt
probated, probates, probating
noun
probates
The act or process of proving before a duly authorized person that a document submitted for official certification and registration, esp. a will, is genuine.
Webster's New World
The legal process by which the validity of a will is established.
American Heritage
The judicial certification of a will.
Webster's New World
A certified copy of a probated will.
Webster's New World
All matters coming under the jurisdiction of probate courts.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • probate will
verb
probated
To establish officially the genuineness or validity of (a will)
Webster's New World
To certify in a probate court as mentally unsound.
Webster's New World
To establish the legality of (a will).
Wiktionary
adjective
Having to do with probate or a probate court.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Probate

Noun

Singular:
probate
Plural:
probates

Origin of Probate

  • Middle English probat from Latin probātum neuter past participle of probāre to prove prove

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin probatus, past participle of probare (“to test, examine, judge of"); see probe, prove.

    From Wiktionary

Probate Sentence Examples

  • It had probate jurisdiction and wills were registered.

  • The other officials are the sheriff, treasurer and coroner, elected for two years; the auditor, recorder, clerk of courts, prosecuting attorney, surveyor and infirmary directors, elected for two years; and the board of school examiners (three) and the board of county visitors (six, of whom three are women), appointed usually by the probate judge for three years.

  • Below this are the twelve district courts, the town councils, probate courts in the larger towns, and justices of the peace.

  • This jurisdiction, which he exercised through the judge of the Prerogative court, was transferred to the crown by the Court of Probate Act 1857.

  • The district court has general, original and exclusive jurisdiction in all matters civil, criminal and probate not expressly conferred on an inferior court, and may hear appeals from inferior courts, boards or officers.

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