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== Description == | |||
''Probate'' is the legal court process by which the estate of a deceased person is distributed to his or her heirs. The term ''probate'' refers to a collection of documents, including [[W genealogical glossary terms|wills]], [[A genealogical glossary terms|administrations]] (also called admons), [[I genealogical glossary terms|inventories]], and [[A genealogical glossary terms|act books]]. The Church of England ecclesiastical courts had authority for this process until to 1858.<br> | |||
== Getting Started == | == Getting Started == | ||
As the last court of appeals, this court should be searched last after all other courts. In many cases, a reference to a will that went through the Court of Delegates will also have been found in one of the Provincial or Chancery courts. See the Indexes and Jurisdiction sections below. | As the last court of appeals, this court should be searched last after all other courts. In many cases, a reference to a will that went through the Court of Delegates will also have been found in one of the Provincial or Chancery courts. See the Indexes and Jurisdiction sections below. | ||
== Indexes == | == Indexes == | ||
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== Records == | == Records == | ||
==== Archive Location<br> ==== | |||
Originals held at [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ The National archives] of the UK at Kew. | |||
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==== Family History Library Records<br> ==== | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=308723&disp=Muniment+books%2C+original+wills%2C+1662%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Original wills, etc., 1662-1837], on microfilm at the Family History Library. | |||
== Jurisdiction == | == Jurisdiction == | ||
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The Court of Delegates, or High Court of Delegates, was a court of appeals from the Court of Arches (Province of Canterbury) and the Court of Chancery (Province of York), including their peculiars, royal peculiars, and the Irish probate courts. "It was so called because the Judges were delegated for each particular case... The High Court of Delegates was abolished in 1832 when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was established ...Wills [continued to be] proved before the latter body until the creation of the Court of Probate [1857]." <ref name="null">Harwood. H. W. Forsyth, ed. "Wills and Administrations in the Court of Delegates" in The Genealogist. (Family History Library book 942 B2gqm, N.S. vol. 11, page 165.)</ref> | The Court of Delegates, or High Court of Delegates, was a court of appeals from the Court of Arches (Province of Canterbury) and the Court of Chancery (Province of York), including their peculiars, royal peculiars, and the Irish probate courts. "It was so called because the Judges were delegated for each particular case... The High Court of Delegates was abolished in 1832 when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was established ...Wills [continued to be] proved before the latter body until the creation of the Court of Probate [1857]." <ref name="null">Harwood. H. W. Forsyth, ed. "Wills and Administrations in the Court of Delegates" in The Genealogist. (Family History Library book 942 B2gqm, N.S. vol. 11, page 165.)</ref> | ||
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