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The Administration of Estates Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. c. 23) is an act passed in 1925 by the British Parliament that consolidated, reformed, and simplified the rules relating to the administration of estates in England and Wales.
The administrator of an estate is a legal term referring to a person appointed by a court to administer the estate of a deceased person who left no will. [1] Where a person dies intestate, i.e., without a will, the court may appoint a person to settle their debts, pay any necessary taxes and funeral expenses, and distribute the remainder according to the procedure set down by law.
Administration cum testamento annexo, where the deceased has left a will but has appointed no executor to it, or the executor appointed has died or refuses to act. In this case the court will make the grant to the person, usually the residuary legatee, with the largest beneficial interest in the estate.
An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under section thirty-two of the Police Pensions Act 1921 [e] modifying the provisions of Part IX. of the Leicester Corporation Act 1908 [f] in respect of the pensions allowance and gratuities payable to members of the permanent fire brigade of the ...
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.
It was made perpetual by the Administration of Intestates' Estate Act 1685 (1 Ja. 2. c. 17). The whole Act, so far as it applied to deaths occurring after the commencement of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 (1 January 1926), was repealed by section 56 of, and Part I of Schedule 2 to, the Administration of Estates Act 1925.
Administration of Estates Act 1925. Description: English: An Act to consolidate Enactments relating to the Administration of the Estates of Deceased Persons.
Before the abolition of gavelkind tenure by the Administration of Estates Act 1925, all land in Kent was presumed to be held by gavelkind until the contrary was proved. [7] It was more correctly described as socage tenure, subject to the custom of gavelkind. The chief peculiarities of the custom were the following: [7]