probate

A legal process or certificate that confirms the validity of a will and grants executors the authority to manage the deceased's estate.

• 🇫🇷Procédure judiciaire ou certificat confirmant la validité d'un testament et donnant aux exécuteurs testamentaires le pouvoir de gérer la succession du défunt.

1. Judicial certificate for a will C1 formal legal

   A legal document issued by a court that confirms a will is authentic and grants the executors authority to manage the deceased person's estate.

   • The executor filed the will with the court to obtain probate.
   • Without probate, the estate cannot be legally distributed.
   • The judge granted probate after verifying the will's signatures.

   🇫🇷certificat judiciaire d'homologation de testament

   Synonymes: letters testamentary

2. Process of proving a will C1 formal legal

   The official legal procedure of demonstrating that a document claiming to be a will was properly signed and executed according to the law.

   • Probate involves verifying witnesses and the testator's signature.
   • The lawyer handled all the paperwork for the probate process.
   • They contested the will during the probate hearing.

   🇫🇷Procédure de vérification d'un testament

• probates plural form
• probates' possessive plural form
• probate's possessive singular form

A verb meaning to establish the validity of a will or to administer the estate of a deceased person through a legal process.

• 🇫🇷Établir la validité d'un testament ou administrer les biens d'une personne décédée par une procédure judiciaire.

1. Place on probation C1 formal legal

   To put a convicted person under supervision instead of sending them to prison, by suspending their sentence.

   • The judge decided to probate the first-time offender.
   • He was probated for two years after the minor theft.
   • The court probated the defendant, allowing him to remain in the community.

   🇫🇷Mettre en probation

   Antonymes: confinedetainimprisonincarceratejailsentence

2. Validate a will C1 formal legal

   To establish the legal validity of a will or other legal document through an official process.

   • The lawyer will probate the will in the county court.
   • The document must be probated before the estate can be distributed.
   • They hired an attorney to probate the deceased's final testament.

   🇫🇷Homologuer un testament

   Synonymes: authenticatecertifyconfirmprovevalidate

• probated past participle
• probated past simple
• probating present participle
• probates third person singular