probate

What does probate mean?

• noun

  a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate

• verb

  establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)

• verb

  put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence

• noun

  the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements

Anagrams of probate