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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of probate.

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Examples

  • The will for each jurisdiction can be "probated" or the administration of the estate in each country started independently and without delay, for example, for the grant of probate to issue here.

    Getting ready for take off in retirement - IFAonline 2010

  • On the charge of money laundering, DeLay was sentenced to five years but that was probated for 10 years.

    Tom DeLay gets 3 years for role in money-laundering scheme 2011

  • Jillian, her attorney, said the will would be probated in a couple of months.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • Why this should be so we could not at the time understand, for when Eben Hale's will was probated, the world learned that he was sole heir to his employer's many millions, and it was expressly stipulated that this great inheritance was given to him without qualification, hitch, or hindrance in the exercise thereof.

    The Minions of Midas 2010

  • Jillian, her attorney, said the will would be probated in a couple of months.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • Jillian, her attorney, said the will would be probated in a couple of months.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • Lack of trust in the court system and lack of funds to access that system meant that wills were not probated, multiple heirs often made property claims and squatting on property occurred.

    Lindsay Coates: Land Tenure: Haiti's Elephant in the Room 2010

  • A copy of the Eweson federal estate tax return on file with the Manhattan Surrogate's Office in New York City, where the estate is being probated, put the gross estate at $142 million with total estate and gift taxes due at $55 million.

    Can IRS Be Forced To Check Out Informant's Tip? 2010

  • Kilpatrick was sentenced last month to up to five years in prison in an unrelated case, for violating terms of a probated sentence for lying under oath about an affair.

    London-to-Newark passengers left on Connecticut tarmac for hours 2010

  • Lack of trust in the court system and lack of funds to access that system meant that wills were not probated, multiple heirs often made property claims and squatting on property occurred.

    Lindsay Coates: Land Tenure: Haiti's Elephant in the Room Lindsay Coates 2010

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