VPRS 3574 County Court Register, Part III, Probate and Administration

Full description

This register records details regarding probates and administrations granted by a County Court rather than the Supreme Court of Victoria. All applications were for estates valued at less than 500 pounds.

Information in the register includes: case number, date of application, name and last address of deceased, description and value of property, names and addresses of plaintiff and practitioner, defendant or caveator, order or decree and to whom granted, date certificate and will fowarded to Master in Equity, names of obligors, date proceedings remitted to Supreme Court, appeal and results, remarks and date when inventories filed by executors. Many of the latter columns were rarely completed.

This series comprises one of three sequences of registers which, if all used, collectively consitututes the entire County Court Register for the court in question. The three sequences were known as:

County Court Register, Part I, Common Law
County Court Register, Part II, Equity, and
County Court Register, Part III, Probate and Administration.