Court of Probate Act 1857
The Court of Probate Act 1857 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that transferred responsibility for the granting of probate, and letters of administration, from the ecclesiastical courts of England and Wales to a new civil Court of Probate. It created a Principal Probate Registry in London and a number of district probate registries. It was followed by the ; both acts were repealed in 1982.
Subsequent developments
Sections 70 to 80 of the act were repealed by section 56 of, and part I of the second schedule to, the Administration of Estates Act 1925.Sections four, thirteen, twenty to twenty-three, twenty-nine, thirty, and forty-six to fifty-three, in section fifty-eight the words “ and the decision of the Court of Probate on such appeal shall be final,” sections fifty-nine, sixty-one to sixty-four and sixty-six to sixty-nine, eighty-seven, eighty-nine to ninety-three, one hundred and ten and one hundred and nineteen, and schedule A were repealed by section 226 of, and the sixth schedule to the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925.