probate judgment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 315 U.S. 343 - Riley v. New York Trust Co. · 1942Most cited · 280 citing opinions
in rem / in personam
So far as the assets in Georgia are concerned the Georgia judgment of probate is in rem; so far as it affects personalty beyond the state, it is in personam and can bind only parties thereto or their privies.
How often courts cite the case defining “probate judgment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “probate judgment” — 280 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.