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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 3B:3-22

  • Administrator: includes general administrators of an intestate and unless restricted by the subject or context, administrators with the will annexed, substituted administrators, substituted administrators with the will annexed, temporary administrators and administrators pendente lite. See New Jersey Statutes 3B:1-1
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
No will shall be admitted to probate until after 10 days from the death of the testator; but the complaint and other papers in any action for the probate of a will may be filed, and the depositions of the witnesses thereto and the qualification of the executor or administrator with the will annexed may be taken at any time subsequent to the death of the testator and before the will is admitted to probate.

L.1981, c. 405, s. 3B:3-22, eff. May 1, 1982.