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See also:PREROGATIVE COURTS , the name given to the See also:English provincial courts of See also:Canterbury and See also:York, as far as regarded their See also:jurisdiction over the estates of deceased persons.
They had jurisdiction to See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant See also:probate or See also:administration where the diocesan courts could not entertain the See also:case owing to the de-ceased having died possessed of goods above the value of 5 (See also:bona notabilia) in each of two or more dioceses. The jurisdiction of the prerogative courts was transferred to the See also:Court of Probate in 1857 by the Probate Court See also:Act, and is now vested in the Probate, See also:Divorce and See also:Admiralty See also:Division of the High Court of See also:Justice by the Judicature Act 1875. In the See also:state of New See also:Jersey, See also:United States, the court having jurisdiction over probate matters is called the Prerogative Court.
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