Both Uses of
probate
in
David Copperfield
- We were a little like undertakers, in the Commons, as regarded Probate transactions; generally making it a rule to look more or less cut up, when we had to deal with clients in mourning.†
Chpt 31-33
- Marriage licences and small probates were what we all looked for, and what paid us best; and the competition for these ran very high indeed.†
Chpt 37-39 *
Definition:
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(probate) establish the legal validity of a will; or a judicial certificate stating such which enables an executor to implement the will