Rhode Island General Laws 33-7-18. Request to record foreign probated will
Whenever the executor or any other person interested in any will, which has been finally proved and allowed in a probate court in any territory, district, or state of the United States, or in a probate court in any foreign country, shall produce a copy of the will and of the will’s probate, duly authenticated according to an act of congress, to any probate court in any town or city in this state where the testator had property, real or personal, upon which the will may operate, and shall in writing request that the will may be filed and recorded in the office of the probate clerk in that town or city, the court shall assign a time and place for a hearing.
History of Section.
C.P.A. 1905, § 790; G.L. 1909, ch. 310, § 10; G.L. 1923, ch. 361, § 10; G.L. 1938, ch. 572, § 10; G.L. 1956, § 33-7-18.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 33-7-18
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
- person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
- Probate: Proving a will
- Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
- town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
- United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8