Testamentary Causes
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In English law. Causes or matters relating to the probate of wills, the granting of administrations, and the suing for legacies, of which the ecclesiastical courts have jurisdiction. 3 Bl. Comm. 95, 98. Testamentary causes are causes relating to the validity and execution of wills. The phrase is generally confined to those causes which were formerly matters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and are now dealt with by the court of probate. Mozley & Whitley.
Defined under Testamentary in Black's Law Dictionary.