Probate & Succession

This includes formal proof of a will, and if a will's validity is unquestioned, it is proven in ‘common form’. The executor, in the absence of other interested parties, obtains at a probate registry a grant upon his or her own oath. Otherwise, it must be proved in ‘solemn form’: its validity established at a probate court (in the Chancery Division of the High Court), those concerned being made parties to the action.