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                    [0] => Probate files contain all the legal documentation required for the granting of probate on a will i.e. the legal administration of an estate. The probate files in this series document probate cases at the High Court for the Palmerston North and Manawatu area.
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            [id] => 21078
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            [name] => Palmerston North Probate files [second sequence]
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                    [custom5] => Folded papers bound with tape.
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            [authenticityNote] => 

	To request files:

	This series is listed to box level only. Archives staff will normally only retrieve a single item per request. Please identify the specific item required by referring to the controlling probate registers: AAOY series 6040.

	Legislation: 

	The Second Schedule of the Judicature Act 1908 consisted of the High Court Rules. Part 8 of the High Court Rules concerned Probate and Administration.
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	Palmerston North High Court probates date from 1904. Prior to this date probate administration in the Manawatu district was under taken by the Wanganui District Court. These records can be located in Series 21253.

	Probate case files contain all the legal documentation required for the granting of a probate on a will. However, not everyone who had made a will has a probate file. The size of the estate was a determining factor in whether wills went to probate. Those wills that were probated were usually lodged in the High Court nearest to where the deceased resided. If a person died without making a will then there may be letters of administration, which contain the legal documentation required for the administration of an intestate person's estate.

	

	The courts' annual single number system, that utilised indexes and registers, was superseded by the introduction of the Courts Management System (CMS) throughout New Zealand's District and High Courts in 2003.
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Each probate case is given an annual running number.
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            [seriesAccessContacts] => 

	To request access to restricted records contact the Palmerston North High Court. Please check the Ministry of Justice’s website for the most up to date contact details at:

	https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/utilities/contact/courts
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	Probate file AAOY, 21078, Box 202, P200/1992 is restricted. For access to this file permission must be obtained from the High Court. All other probate files in this series have open access.  

	 
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