COURT OF PROBATE


In English law. The name of a court established ln 1857, under the probate act of that year, (20 A 21 VicL c. 77,) to be held in London, to which court was transferred tbe testamen-tary jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts. 2 Steph. Comm. 192. By the judicature acts, this court is merged ln the high court of Justice