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... few weeks after Albert died, Mary Erskine went one day in a wagon, taking the baby with her, and Thomas to drive, to the county town, where the Probate court was held. ...

— Mary Erskine • Jacob Abbott

... him, I said with a polite bow: "Mr. Warren, I owe you an apology for bringing you into the Probate Court. I am sure no one will ever dream of disputing your will, because you have left everybody ...

— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton

... then adjourned. During the interval the jury visited the Probate Court to view the pictures which had been collected in the Westminster ...

— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler

... the inheritance tax. It brings in a large revenue, and falls upon those who are best able to pay. The tax cannot be shifted and it cannot easily be evaded. It is easily assessed and collected, because all wills must pass through the probate court. It is held that the state has a social claim upon the property of an individual who has amassed wealth under the protection of its laws, and that this property ought not to be transferred intact to those who did not ...

— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson

... of England real estate descended to the eldest son of him who was last seised; but in 1699 the Assembly had passed a statute of distribution, copied from a Massachusetts act, which directed the probate court, after payment of debts, to make a "distribution of ... all the residue ... of the real and personal estate by equal portions to and among the children ... except the eldest son ... ...

— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams

... latter binding upon the former.[79] On the other hand, judicial proceedings in one State, under which inheritance taxes have been paid and the administration upon the estate has been closed, are denied full faith and credit by the action of a probate court in another State in assuming jurisdiction and assessing inheritance taxes against the beneficiaries of the estate, when under the law of the former State the order of the probate court barring all creditors who had failed to bring in their demand from ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

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