probate

Meanings

Plural: probates

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
• The legal process of verifying the legality of a will.
• A copy of a legally recognised and qualified will.
• Clipping of probate court.
• Proof.

Verb

• put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence
• establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
• To establish the legality of (a will).

Synonyms

probate will

Related Words

probation, probe, prove