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                    [0] => 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).
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            [id] => 9067
            [idSort] => 9067
            [name] => Probates and Letters of Administration
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                    [custom5] => Legal files with single vertical fold
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                            [0] => 18103
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            [authenticityNote] => 

	Digital copies of these probates are available online via FamilySearch
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	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.
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                            [name] => Dunedin repository
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Annual single numbers  1/1918 - 247/1936
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	Probate files more than 50 years old are restricted in order to preserve the originals, as digitised copies are available online via FamilySearch. 
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