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  • It has a court of admiralty, but none of probates, at least like New York's.†  (source)
  • Stingo, you may recall a number of years ago when your grandmother's will was probated we were all baffled by her reference to a certain sum in gold coins which she bequeathed to her grandchildren but which we could never find.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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  • I found out he is a specialist in wills and probate.†  (source)
  • But it doesn't have courts of admiralty nor of probates, like the New York courts.†  (source)
  • Once that happens, and once the will is probated, then it's filed in court and becomes public.†  (source)
  • About the same time, it also came to light that the clerk in charge of handling the money in probate court did not know how to multiply and that one of the probate judges had taken advantage of the situation by dipping into the cash box.†  (source)
  • New York has courts of common law, courts of probates (similar to the spiritual courts in England), a court of admiralty, and a court of chancery.†  (source)
  • Jake decided to press on: "I'll admit I've never had a case like this, never probated a handwritten will.†  (source)
  • The three of us were the boys who got into trouble; I was the probate judge, for a change; Dill led Jem away and crammed him beneath the steps, poking him with the brushbroom.†  (source)
  • The New Jersey courts of common law have the jurisdiction in cases that in New York are determined in the courts of admiralty and of probates.†  (source)
  • I probated it late this afternoon.†  (source)
  • I promised him that I'd see the estate all the way through probate, too, but that won't be a problem, since the estate is small and you're his only child.†  (source)
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