Definition of probate
- n. - Proof.
- n. - 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.
- n. - The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
- a. - Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a
probate record.
- 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.