Probate

Definition: Probate

Probate

Noun

1. A judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate.

2. The act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements.

Verb

1. Put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence.

2. Establish the legal validity of; as of a will, etc.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "probate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Finance

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Probate

Security

Authentication, verification, warrant, certificate, voucher, docket, doquet; record; probate, attested copy.

Tribunal

Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth.

Crosswords: Probate

Latin (approval, approve, certify, commend, demonstrate, esteem, examine, get accepted, give assent, let, prove, recommend, sanction, show to be real, test, true, try).

Books

• 8 Ways to Avoid Probate (reference)

• Death and Taxes: Questions and Answers on Wills, Trusts, and Probate (reference)

• Family Trusts : Financial Errors in Trusts, How to Avoid and Correct Them, Provide for Your Family, Save Taxes, Protect Your Assets and Avoid Probate (Second Edition) (reference)

• How to Probate an Estate in California (How to Probate an Estate in California, 13th Ed) (reference)

• How to Probate and Settle an Estate in California (How to Probate an Estate in California) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Georgia Probate Notes (reference)

• Index To Probate Records (reference)

• Probate & Property (reference)

• Probate Practice Reporter (reference)

• Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• What is Probate and How Do I Avoid It (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Probate court room, Wayne County Building, Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Entrance to new probate house, Salem, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Central African Republic

There are no formal courts currently functioning outside Bangui; traditional arbitration and negotiation play a major role in administering domestic, property, and probate law. (references)

Cameroon

Traditional courts still play a major role in domestic, property, and probate law. (references)

Barbados

Specialization: Corporate Law, Family Law, Conveyancing, Probate. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

In rural areas, traditional courts continued to handle many local disputes, especially property and probate cases, and domestic conflicts that could not be resolved within the family. (references)

Cameroon

Their authority varies by region and ethnic group, but they often are the arbiters of property and domestic disputes and may serve a probate function as well. (references)

Minorities

Cyprus

Such property would no longer be seized by the Turkish Cypriot authorities but would be taken into temporary custody pending probate of the will. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "probate": Court of Probate ♦ formal probate ♦ letters probate ♦ living probate ♦ probate Court ♦ probate duty ♦ probate in solemn form ♦ probate will ♦ solemn form probate ♦ to admit to probate ♦ To renounce probate. Additional references.

Albanian

verifikoj zyrtarisht, verifikim zyrtar, homologoj (prove), homologimi, homologim. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسخة مصدقة رسميا, ‏إثبات صحة وصية, ‏أكد صحة الوصية, ‏ثبت صحة الوصية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

заверен препис на завещание, легалезиране на завещание, легализирам (certify, legalise, legalize, prove). (various references)

Chinese 

遗嘱的认证. (various references)

Czech

soudní potvrzení závìti. (various references)

Danish

arveafgifter (death duties, death duty, death-duty, estate duty, estate tax, inheritance tax, legacy tax, probate duty, succession tax), arveafgift (death duties, death duty, death-duty, estate duty, estate tax, inheritance tax, legacy tax, probate duty, succession tax). (various references)

Dutch

vonnis van bekrachtiging. (various references)

Farsi 

محاکمه کردن (Try), گواهی نمودن صحت وصیت نامه , گواهی حصروراثت , تحت ازمایش یانظرقراردادن , استنطاق کردن (Inquire, Interrogate, Query), رونوشت گواهی شده وصیت نامه . (various references)

Finnish

asiakirjan vahvistuttamista koskeva päätös. (various references)

French

lettres d'homologation (letters probate), jugement d'homologation, homologuer (prove), homologation d'un testament, homologation de testament (grant of probate), faire homologuer. (various references)

German

juristische testamentsbestätigung, Homologationsurteil, gerichtliche Testamenteröffnung, Bestätigungsurteil, bestätigendes Urteil. (various references)

Greek 

έλεγχοσ διαθήκησ, επικύρωση διαθήκησ, επικύρωση (authentication, confirmation, ratification, sanction, visa), ελέγχω διαθήκην, διαπιστώ διαθήκην. (various references)

Hebrew 

לאשר צוא�", אשור צוא�". (various references)

Hungarian

elismerés (accolade, acknowledgment, admission, appreciation, approbation, avowal, honourable mention, recognition, regard, tribute), örökösödési eljárás, érvényesít (endorse, indorse, put across, to make good, to prove, to validate, to vindicate, validate). (various references)

Italian

sentenza d'omologazione, omologazione di testamento. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

検認 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

け�"に�" (concurrent post, perseverance). (various references)

Manx

prowaltys chymnee. (various references)

Pig Latin

obatepray

Portuguese

sentença homologatória, legitimação (legitimation), homologar (acknowledge, affirm, confirm, corroborate, homologate, ratify, sanction). (various references)

Russian 

заверенная копия завещания. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potvrda testamenta. (various references)

Spanish

legalizar (attest, authenticate, legalise, legalize). (various references)

Swedish

testamentbevakning, styrka (establishment, force, fortify, impact, intensity, invigorate, kick, loudness, lustiness, manpower, might, power, prove, sinew, stamina, strength, strengthen, toughen, validate, vigor, vigour), homologation. (various references)

Turkish

vasiyetnameyi onaylamak, vasiyetnameyi açmak, vasiyetnamenin onaylanması, vasiyetnamenin ispatı. (various references)

Ukrainian

затверджувати заповіт, затвердження заповіту судом, доказ (argument, attest, authority, averment, clue, confirmation, document, eviction, evidence, proof, substantiation, testimony, witness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "probate": probated, probates. (additional references)

Words ending with "probate": approbate, reprobate. (additional references)

Words containing "probate": approbated, approbates, reprobated, reprobates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Probate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Prabhat, probare, Probart, probat, probata, probati, probide, probie, probit, prolate, Prosafe, robate, Robati. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boater, borate, protea, rebato.

-2 letters: abort, aport, apter, boart, oater, opera, orate, pareo, pater, peart, prate, probe, rebop, repot, taber, tabor, taper, toper, trope.

-3 letters: abet, aero, aper, atop, bare, bate, bear, beat, beta, boar, boat, bora, bore, bort, bota, brae, brat, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, pert, poet, pore, port, prao, prat.

+1 letter: portable, probated, probates.

+2 letters: ambrotype, approbate, perborate, portables, powerboat, probative, reprobate.

+3 letters: absorptive, ambrotypes, approbated, approbates, baroceptor, blastopore, deportable, exportable, importable, pasteboard, perborates, portabella, portabello, powerboats, profitable, promotable, reportable, reprobated, reprobates.

+4 letters: absorptance, baroceptors, blastopores, blastospore, boilerplate, meprobamate, operability, pasteboards, polysorbate, portabellas, portabellos, prelibation, probationer, problematic, projectable, protuberant, reprobating, reprobation, reprobative, reprobatory, supportable.

+5 letters: absorptances, baroreceptor, bipolarities, bipropellant, blastospores, boilerplates, bootstrapped, meprobamates, perambulator, perturbation, plasterboard, polysorbates, prelibations, probationers, problematics, prosecutable, protuberance, reprobations, transposable, unprofitable.