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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Probate \Pro"bate\, adjective 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Probate \Pro"bate\, noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Probate \Pro"bate\, verb (used with an object) 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
probate
noun
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
verb
1: put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence
2: establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "probate": affirm, attest, attested copy, authenticate, back, back up, bear out, bequeathal, bequest, bolster, buttress, certify, circumstantiate, codicil, confirm, corroborate, devise, document, fortify, inheritance, legacy, prove, ratify, reinforce, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, testament, undergird, uphold, validate, verify, warrant, will
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