Court of Probate

The Court of Probate was created by the Court of Probate Act 1857, which transferred the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in testamentary matters to the new court so created.

The Judge of the Court of Probate also presided over the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, but the two courts remained separate entities.

On 1 November 1875, under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 and the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1875, the Judge of the Court of Probate was transferred, as its President, to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.

Judges of the Court of Probate

References
  • Hill, Alexander Staveley (1859). A Manual of the Practice of the Court of Probate. London: H. Sweet.
  • Coote, Henry Charles; Tristram, Thomas H. (1866). The Practice of the Court of Probate in Common Form Business (fifth ed.). London: Butterworths.
  • Browne, George (1873). A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Court of Probate in Contentious and Non-contentious Business. H. Sweet.
  • Searle, Richard; Smith, James Charles (1860). Monthly Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Probate: And in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, Commencing Michaelmas Term 1859. 1. London: Stevens & Norton.
  • Swabey and Tristram's Reports
  • Haydn, Joseph; Ockerby, Horace (1894). The Book of Dignities. W. H. Allen & Co.
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