- Administrator C.T.A. "Cum testamento annexo", or, " with the will annexed."
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An administrator of an estate other than named executor in a will.
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- Beneficiary:
- One receiving an inheritance in a will.
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- Bond:
- A certificate or evidence of a debt with a sum fixed as a penalty, which contains a written agreement binding the parties to pay the penalties. It contains a condition, however, that the payment of penalty may be avoided by performance by some one or more of the parties of certain acts.
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- Certified Copy:
- A copy of a document or record, signed and certified as a true copy by the officer to whose custody the original is intrusted.
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- Codicil:
- A supplement or an addition to a will; it may explain, modify, add to, subtract from, qualify, alter, restrain or revoke provisions in an existing will.
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- Commissioner of Accounts:
- Person(s) appointed by the Court to oversee the reports and activities of personal representatives.
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- Creditor:
- Person or organization owed money by the decedent.
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- Decedent:
- Deceased person.
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- Estate:
- The decedent's property, real and personal, and all other assets owed or controlled by decedent at the time of their death.
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- Executor:
- The person named in decedent's will to administer the estate who accepts the appointment by qualifying before the clerk.
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- Fiduciary:
- A person in a position of trust with respect to another's property; a general term used to refer to executor, administrator or trustee.
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- Heirs at Law:
- Persons who would inherit the decedent's estate if the decedent died without a will.
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- Holographic Will:
- Will written entirely by the testator with his own hand.
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- Intestate Estate:
- An estate to be administered without a will.
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- Inventory:
- Detailed list of articles; a list or schedule of property, containing designation or description of such specific article.
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- Probate:
- Procedure whereby a will is admitted to record in the clerk's office; also used to include the process of qualifying a person as an executor or administrator of an estate; also sometimes refers to entire process of administering an estate.
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- Qualification:
- Procedure whereby a person is appointed by the clerk to serve as executor or administrator of a decedent's estate.
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- Self-Proved Will:
- Will that includes a notarized affidavit of the testator and attesting witnesses. See the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, for specific language.
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- Testator:
- One who dies leaving a will.
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- Testate Estate:
- An estate to be administered pursuant to a will.
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- Will:
- Individual's declaration of property disposal after death.
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