VPRS 7592 Wills and Probate and Administration Files

This series is a consolidation of the Wills and Probate and Administration papers held by the Registrar of Probates. The series is a concurrent series with VPRS 28 Probate and Administration Files and contains documents that were retained by the Probate Office after the initial transfer of VPRS 28 in 1969. When VPRS 7592/P1 was transferred in 1989, papers in VPRS 28 that were already held at the Public Record Office Victoria were not interfiled. Therefore researchers may find papers relating to a particular estate in both VPRS 7592/P1 and in VPRS 28. For more information see VPRS 28 Probate and Administration Files and VPRS 7591 Wills. The series also includes copies of the wills which had originally been kept separately but were interfiled by the agency in the 1970's or 1980's. They relate to Probate Series 'A' and 'B' in VPRS 28.  As the date of this consolidation is unknown the series date range been determined by the date of its contents. Files in this series include the following documents that were required to be lodged with the Registrar of Probate prior to the making of a Grant of Probate or Letters of Administration to be granted: Copy of advertisement from a daily newspaper indicating the intention to apply for Probate after 14 days Affidavit in support of the application sworn by the executors (the original will may be attached as an exhibit) Affidavit of publication and searches (this is usually sworn by the solicitors clerk); a copy of the advertisement is usually set out in the affidavit Inventory detailing the assets in Victoria Praecipe (this summarises the particulars of the application) Order for Probate Probate Parchment The affidavits are sworn before a Commissioner of the Supreme Court. When the Probate is granted the date is stamped on the document. State Probate Duty was abolished in January 1984 for deaths after that date. Prior to this time, an executor was obliged to provide details of an estate's assets within 3 months of the death of the deceased.

本系列系对遗嘱登记官（Registrar of Probates）所持有的遗嘱、遗嘱认证及遗产管理卷宗的整合汇编。本系列与VPRS 28《遗嘱认证与遗产管理卷宗》为并行档案系列，包含1969年VPRS 28首次移交后，遗嘱认证办公室留存的档案文件。1989年VPRS 7592/P1移交时，原已存放于维多利亚公共记录办公室的VPRS 28卷宗未进行跨档合并。因此研究人员可在VPRS 7592/P1与VPRS 28中均找到涉及特定遗产的相关卷宗。如需更多信息，请参阅VPRS 28《遗嘱认证与遗产管理卷宗》及VPRS 7591《遗嘱》。本系列还包含原本单独保管，但于20世纪70年代或80年代由该机构完成跨档合并的遗嘱副本，其对应VPRS 28中的遗嘱认证系列‘A’与‘B’。由于本次汇编的具体日期不详，本系列的时间范围由其所包含档案的生成日期确定。

本系列卷宗包含以下在申请授予遗嘱认证或遗产管理书前，需提交给遗嘱登记官的文件：
1. 刊登于日报的公告副本，载明拟于14日后申请遗嘱认证的意向；
2. 由遗嘱执行人宣誓出具的申请支持宣誓书（原始遗嘱可作为附件附于其后）；
3. 公告与检索宣誓书（通常由律师助理宣誓出具），该宣誓书内通常附有所刊载的公告副本；
4. 维多利亚州境内资产清单；
5. 申请令状（该文件概述申请的具体细节）；
6. 遗嘱认证令；
7. 遗嘱认证羊皮纸文书。

上述宣誓书均需在最高法院专员面前宣誓出具。遗嘱认证获批后，审批日期将加盖于文书之上。1984年1月起，针对此后发生的死亡事件，州遗嘱认证税已被废止。在此之前，遗嘱执行人需在被继承人死亡后的3个月内提交遗产资产详情。