meaning of probated
1. Proof.
2. Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.
3. The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
4. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.
5. To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.
6. the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
Related Words
probate | probate court | probate will | probation | probation officer | probational | probationary | probationer | probationership | probationship | probative | probator | probatory | reprobated |
