Testamentary Causes
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
Causes relating to probate of testaments and administration, and accounts upon the same. They are enumerated among ecclesiastical causes by Lord Coke. 5 Coke, 1, and tables of cases at the end of the part. Over these causes the probate court has now exclusive jurisdiction, by 20 6 21 Vict. c.
77, amended by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 95.