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Lincolnshire Archives is the county record office of Lincolnshire, England It was established as a county service in 1948 by the Lincolnshire Archives Committee, which had been formally constituted on 24 October 1947 with Sir Robert Pattinson as chairman. [ 1 ]
The probate calendar was created by the Probate Registry, which was responsible for proving wills and administrations from 1858 following the enactment of the Court of Probate Act 1857. [1] It replaced a system of ecclesiastical courts.
The Country Justice and the Case of the Blackamoor's Head: the Practice of the Law in Lincolnshire, 1787–1838. Lincoln Record Society. Vol. 102. Bennett, Nicholas, ed. (2013). Lincolnshire Parish Clergy c.1214–1968. A Biographical Register. Part I: The Deaneries of Aslacoe and Aveland. Lincoln Record Society. Vol. 103.
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
The Judge of the Court of Probate also presided over the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, but the two courts remained separate entities. On 1 November 1875, under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 and the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1875 , the Judge of the Court of Probate was transferred, as its President , to the Probate ...
Probate courts administer proper distribution of the assets of a decedent (one who has died), adjudicates the validity of wills, enforces the provisions of a valid will (by issuing the grant of probate), prevents malfeasance by executors and administrators of estates, and provides for the equitable distribution of the assets of persons who die ...
2) for the Province of York (other than the City of York) and the Wills Act 1703 (2 & 3 Ann. c. 5), for the City of York; for Wales by the Wills Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. c. 38) with the final assimilation not taking place until 1 June 1725 when the City of London Elections Act 1724 ( 11 Geo. 1 .
The Uniform Probate Code in the United States carries forward the two witness requirement of the Statute of Wills, at Section 2-502, [1] except that a document is valid as a holographic will, whether or not witnessed, if the signature and material portions of the document are in the testator's handwriting. [2]