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PROBATE DUTY (IRELAND) ACT 1816 - SECT 117

Affidavit to be made before granting probate, &c. that the estate and effects of the deceased are under the value of a specified sum.

117. From and after the commencement of this Act, no ecclesiastical court or
jurisdiction in Ireland shall grant probate of the will or letters of
administration of the estate and effects of any person deceased, without first
requiring and receiving from the person or persons applying for the probate or
letters of administration, or from some other competent person or persons, an
affidavit or solemn affirmation in the case of Quakers, that the estate and
effects of the deceased, for or in respect of which the probate or letters of
administration is or are to be granted, are under the value of a certain sum
to be specified in such affidavit, to the best of the deponent's or
affirmant's knowledge, information, and belief, and according to the account
to be annexed to such affidavit, according to which sum the stamp duty shall
be ascertained which shall be then required on such probate or letters of
administration, which affidavit or affirmation shall be made before the
surrogate or other person who shall administer the usual oath for the due
administration of the estate and effects of the deceased.

Ss.118120 rep. by SLR 1890. Ss.121129 rep. by 1947 c.44 s.39 sch.2; SI
1949/1836 (p.1261); SLR (NI) 1954; (with saving) 1975 c.7 s.59 sch.13 Pt.I


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