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1
Q

A person appointed by the court to administer the estate of a deceased person who died instate (no will)

A

Administrator

2
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A person appointed by the court to administer the estate of a deceased person who died instate (no will)

A

Administratrix

3
Q

The transferring of real property from one person to another (4-45)

A

Alienation

4
Q

Any condition revealed by a title search which may affect or impair the owner’s title to property because of their apparent or probable validity (8-81)

A

Cloud on Title

5
Q

A supplement or addition to a will which adds to, subtract from, alters, revokes, or qualifies the provisions of the will (6-67)

A

Codicil

6
Q

To bring to completion, perfection or fulfillment

A

Consummate

7
Q

The right that a husband has in his wife’s estate at the death (6-66)

A

Curtesy

8
Q

Ownership transferred by means of inheritance (6-66)

A

Descent

9
Q

A gift of real or personal property by will

A

Devise

10
Q

The one-half interest a wife has in the property of her husband; a life estate in one-half of the land the husband owns during the continuance of the marriage relationship (6-65)

A

Dower

11
Q

The reverting of property to the state when heirs capable of inheriting are lacking, or the property is abandoned (4-43)

A

Escheat

12
Q

A person named in a will to carry out its provisions as to the disposition of the estate of a deceased person (6-67)

A

Executor

13
Q

Feminine of “executor.”

A

Executrix

14
Q

Incomplete; not perfected. (6-65)

A

Inchoate

15
Q

Having made no valid willI also a person who dies without a will, or with one which is defective it form (6-67)

A

Intestate

16
Q

The legal process of determining the validity of a will, paying the debts of the estate and determining who is to receive the remainder of the estate (6-66)

A

Probate

17
Q

Leaving a will upon death (6-67)

A

Testate

18
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A person of makes a will (6-67)

A

Testator