Hypertext Webster Gateway: "probate"
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) 1.7 (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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