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                    [0] => Probate files contain all the legal documentation required for the granting of a probate of a will. Letters of Administration files contain the legal documentation required for the administration of the deceased person's estate who does not have a will.
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            [id] => 9076
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            [name] => Dunedin probate and Letters of Administration files (II)
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                    [custom5] => Folded files bound with legal tape.
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	Digital copies of those probates more than 50 years old are available online via FamilySearch
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	Probate files contain all the legal documentation required for the granting of 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, which were probated, were usually lodged in the Supreme/High Court nearest to where the deceased resided. If a person died without making a will, then there may be a file of Letters of Administration, containing the legal documentation required for the administration of the deceased person’s estate.

	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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            [seriesAccessContacts] => 

	Please ask staff at the Dunedin Regional Office of Archives New Zealand for further information.
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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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