Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

small-estate probate

An informal procedure for administering small estates, less structured than the normal process and usu. not requiring the assistance of an attorney.2.Loosely, a personal representative's actions in handling a decedent's estate. 3. Loosely, all the subjects over which probate courts have jurisdiction. 4. Archaic. A nonresident plaintiff's proof of a debt by swearing before a notary public or other officer that the debt is correct, just, and due, and by having the notary attach a jurat.