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                    [0] => Probate files contained all the legal documentation required for the granting of a probate of a will. Letters of Administration files contained the legal documentation required for the administration of the deceased person's estate who did not have a will.
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            [id] => 27191
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            [name] => Invercargill Probate Files - Civil registry sequence
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                    [custom5] => Legal files with single vertical fold
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	Probate is defined as the 'confirmation of an executor's authority, granted by the Court, upon proof of the will in the proper way. In New Zealand probate jurisdiction is vested in the High Court'. (Spiller, NZ Law Dictionary).

	Probate and Letters of Administration files contain some, or all, of the following types of documentation:

	· Motion paper

	· Affidavits of witnesses or executors

	· Affidavit of death

	· Filed accounts

	· Will

	· Probate paper

	· Inventory

	· Codicils

	· Miscellaneous

	Where Letters of Administration only have been lodged, i.e., the individual has died intestate and no will has been made, some of the following types of documentation will be found:

	· Petition by administrator

	· Administration bond

	· Accounts

	· Motion paper for the grant of letters of administration

	· Affidavits

	· Affidavit of justification of sureties

	· Letters of administration

	· Miscellaneous

	This series began in 2003 when the Courts moved to an new electronic file system which brought all Court-created files under a single registration system, although hard copy files were still created. This series overlaps for part of 2003 with the predecessor series (9069). Some files in this series, therefore, have been given two different record numbers (having been top-numbered into this new series).

	The numbering system for this series also seems to have been used to incorporate Invercargill actions/civil case files. These files have not yet been transferred to Archives New Zealand.
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                            [name] => Dunedin repository
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Each file has been registered with an annual running number, which takes the form CIV-[YYYY]-[CCC]-[NNN] where YYYY is the year, CCC is the Court number (for Invercargill High Court, 425) and NNN is a running number. For example, CIV-2003-425-169.
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