Choate, judge of probate and insolvency of the county of Essex, Mass.
Appointed the judge of probate for Hillsborough county in 1851, he obtained the judicial title which clung to him thereafter.
It is a deed of manumission, made after our struggles had begun, and preserved in the Probate Records of the County of Suffolk.
The probate courts were also limited in their jurisdiction to matters of estates, guardianship and divorce.
Judge McKean and his colleagues ignored the territorial laws enacted in 1852, which were still on the statutes, and denied to the probate courts all jurisdiction except in matters of probate.
Bedford Cornish, and Marion Tolliver, as sureties, and is said to be the largest in amount ever filed in our local Probate Court.
Mr. Cornish asked whether it would not be best to take time, allow the probate proceedings to drag along, and see what would turn up.
These are mere chance items in the multitude which constantly recur in probate records.
The probate office has suddenly become a very lucrative position, and judging from the records in this office, Kansas must be the most unhealthy place in the country.
The probate judge gets five cents each for recording these statements which are sent to him by the druggists.
Their wills are proved like the wills of other mortals, and the Probate Office keeps the record.
Can you help me to get sight of any of these papers not to be found at the Registry of Deeds or the Probate Office?
Can you help me to get a sight of any papers relating to the estate of Malachi Withers, not to be found at the Registry of Deeds or the Probate Office,--any of which you may happen to have any private and particular knowledge?
It should be observed that the ecclesiastical jurisdiction over wills is now abolished in England; and, since 1857, the jurisdiction is given to the Court of Probateand Divorce.
Reasonably they would be consulted on subjects on which the civil or Roman law had such a bearing; and as a matter of fact, they soon became presiding judges with the civil magistrate in cases of probate of wills.
At a very early day, they sought jurisdiction inprobate matters.
Hence the law relating to the execution and probate of wills, as administered in the ecclesiastical courts, was engrafted here, subject to certain statutory modifications suitable to our polity and circumstances.
In the reign of Richard II the county courts were prohibited to infere with the probate of wills.
But Justinian would not allow further than this, and he prohibited the bishops interfering generally in the probate of wills.
Some wills have been refused probate upon the ground of a disgusting fondness for animals, evinced by the testators during their lives or in the testamentary act.
Settlement, was a member of the Council of the Colony, and ultimately became Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas and Probate Court.
He followed in his father's footsteps becoming a lawyer and colonial publicist, afterwards a colonel of the militia, a judge of the Common Pleas, a judge of the Probate Court, and a member of the Council of Massachusetts.
During this period he was promoted to the place of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and while holding this important place he was also judge of the Probate Court.
No bishop or other official having authority to take probate of testaments may take a fee for probating a testament where the goods of the testator are under 100s.
It is formally declared that the court of probate of the county of the plaintiff shall have jurisdiction in all petitions, and these are to be made in writing upon oath or affirmation setting forth the grounds of action.
The statute of Alabama says positively that "no marriage shall be solemnized without a license issued by the judge of probate of the county where the female resides;" but a marriage so solemnized is nevertheless valid.
Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Probate and in the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes.
Jurisdiction is still vested in the courts of common pleas, although in certain counties the probate courts have cognizance: BATES, op.
The Judge ofProbate appoints a person to take charge of the property and divide it among the heirs.
The Judge of Probate said that very few of the papers that he received were signed so well.
This leave the Judge of Probate will give in cases where it is clearly best for the children that the property should be so sold and the avails of it kept for them, rather than the property itself.
The will of which the latter claimed probate was one dated 1891, and had been made by Mr. Brooks during a severe illness which threatened to end his days.
Such was the case of probate where notable goods of the deceased lay in more than one diocese.
So while Mr. Tutt drew their clients' wills, it was Tutt who attempted to probate and execute them.
Several days passed, however, without the subject being mentioned further, while the proper steps to probate the will were taken as usual.
Both he and the Probate judge were candidates for re-election, and it seemed certain that the aggressive Vallandigham faction in the party would control the nominations in the party convention.
I said:-- "I have the honour to call your attention to a persistent effort on the part of the Probate Judge of the county to produce a collision between the sheriff and posse of the vicinity and the United States government.
The wife was the daughter of Colfax, the probate judge.
