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ANCILLARY LETTER [4 records]

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Record 1 2004-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
DEF

Subsidiary grant of probate relating to a grant obtained outside the (jurisdiction), giving powers of administration to a foreign executor over property in the (jurisdiction). (Curzon, A Dictionary of Law, 1979, p. 269)

CONT

Where a foreign court of competent jurisdiction has granted probate... of an estate that includes property in Ontario, and application for ancillary probate... is made and it is shown that the executor... is by the law of the domicile of the deceased entitled to receive the property... ancillary letters shall be issued. ("Surrogate Court Rules", O. Reg. 143/78, R.29)

CONT

An application for an ancillary grant of probate cannot be opposed on the ground that the formal requirements of the law of the domicile have not been complied with, or that the will of which probate had been granted in the jurisdiction of the domicile had been revoked under that law. In such a case, the correct procedure is to reopen the question if this is possible in the courts of the testator's domicile. (Hull and Cullity, p. 307)

OBS

ancillary letters probate: term usually used in the plural

Key term(s)
  • ancillary letter probate

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
OBS

«Ancillary probate» est la forme elliptique de «ancillary grant of probate» et «ancillary letters probate». Le substantif «grant» s'emploie dans le sens de «letters» et est rendu par «lettres».

OBS

lettres d'homologation auxiliaires : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Key term(s)
  • lettre d'homologation auxiliaire

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
CONT

An ancillary grant is required where the grant has been issued by a court outside of Canada that cannot be described as a British Court.... The foreign letters may be letters probate or letters of administration and corresponding ancillary letters will be issued on application to the appropriate court, which is the Court of the County or District in which the assets in the Province are situated. (Feeney, The Canadian Law of Wills, 1982, vol. 1, p. 145)

Key term(s)
  • ancillary letter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
OBS

Le substantif «grant» est employé ici comme contraction de «grant of letters» et est rendu en français par «lettres» seulement.

OBS

lettres auxiliaires : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Key term(s)
  • lettre auxiliaire

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Law of Succession (civil law)
  • Bankruptcy
CONT

... [U]pon proof of the domicile the Surrogate Court will accept the exemplification as the foundation of ancillary letters probate or letters of administration. (Hull & Cullity, Macdonell, Sheard and Hull on Probate practice, 3rd ed., 1981, p. 311)

Key term(s)
  • ancillary letter of administration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit successoral (droit civil)
  • Faillites
OBS

Le substantif «grant» s'emploie ici dans le sens de «letters» et est rendu en français par «lettres».

OBS

lettres d'administration auxiliaires : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Key term(s)
  • lettre d'administration auxiliaire

Spanish

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Record 4 1989-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque

Spanish

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