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Probate :: Probate (n.) 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..

Heriot :: Heriot (n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred..

Decease :: Decease (v. i.) To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.

Defunct :: Defunct (n.) A dead person; one deceased.

Decedent :: Decedent (n.) A deceased person.

Ghost :: Ghost (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

Predecease :: Predecease (n.) The death of one person or thing before another.

Decease :: Decease (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death..

Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..

Predecease :: Predecease (v. t.) To die sooner than.

Defunct :: Defunct (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.

Administration :: Administration (n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use..

Deceased :: Deceased (imp. & p. p.) of Deceas.

Jointure :: "Jointure (n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower..

Inventory :: Inventory (n.) An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business..

Devastavit :: Devastavit (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.

Devastation :: Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.

Succiduous :: Successor (n.) One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king..

Inferiae :: Inferiae (n. pl.) Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.

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