Probate vs Probation - What's the difference?
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(legal) The legal process of verifying the legality of a will.
(legal) A copy of a legally recognised and qualified will.
(obsolete) proof
To establish the legality of (a will ).
A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
(archaic) The act of testing; proof
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Probation is a related term of probate.
As nouns the difference between probate and probation
is that probate is the legal process of verifying the legality of a will while probation is a period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance.As a verb probate
is to establish the legality of (a will).probate
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(wikipedia probate)Noun
(en noun)- (Skelton)
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(en-verb)Derived terms
* probate court * probate duty * probate judge * probate lawExternal links
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(en noun)- You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
- He got two years probation for robbery.
- And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
- And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation .
