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US
/ˈpɹoʊˌbeɪt/
]
[ UK /pɹˈəʊbeɪt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈəʊbeɪt/ ]
VERB
- establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
- put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence
NOUN
- a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
- the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
How To Use probate In A Sentence
- A glance at any probate casebook will demonstrate how often solicitous distant relatives, keen to do fetching and carrying as well as to sort out troublesome financial affairs, show up in the declining years of lonely old people.
- Will the bonds have to be probated along with the rest of my estate upon my death?
- The will, probated in Sweden, survived the predictable contest from unhappy relatives, but there were other problems.
- She specialises in conveyancing, probate, wills and matrimonial work, and in her spare time enjoys skiing, sailing, riding, theatre and eating out.
- The refusal to pray for an unbelieving kindred is justified, according to Mahomet, by the duty of a prophet, and the example of Abraham, who reprobated his own father as an enemy of God. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris. Robert Morris
- That young hair brained fellow has sent us a brace of petticoats aboard; and these the profane reprobate calls his divinities! The Red Rover
- A county court is held by a county judge elected for four years, who is also _surrogate_, called in other states, _judge of probate_. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
- The bigger thing for people to understand when is you put it on the unsubstantiated word of a reprobate witness who's getting "bribed" -- quote unquote -- by the government, paid by the government, and the 10th circuit mentioned that. CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2003
- Apol. xxxv., “publici hostes”; xxxvii., “hostes maluistis vocare generis humani Christianos” (you prefer to call Christians the enemies of the human race); Minuc., x., “pravae religionis obscuritas”; viii., “homines deploratae, inlicitae ac desperatae factionis” (reprobate characters, belonging to an unlawful and desperate faction); “plebs profanae coniurationis”; ix., “sacraria taeterrima impiae citionis” (abominable shrines of an impious assembly); “eruenda et execranda consensio” (a confederacy to be rooted out and detested). The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries