Editing Probate (section)

===Etymology===
The English noun "probate" derives directly from the [[Latin]] verb ''probare'',<ref>Collins Dictionary of the English Language</ref> to try, test, prove, examine,<ref>Cassell's Latin Dictionary</ref> more specifically from the verb's [[past participle]] nominative neuter ''probatum'',<ref>''Testamentum'', the participle refers to, being a neuter noun</ref> "having been proved". Historically during many centuries a paragraph in Latin of standard format was written by scribes of the particular probate court below the transcription of the will, commencing with the words (for example): ''Probatum Londini fuit huiusmodi testamentum coram venerabili viro'' (name of approver) ''legum doctore curiae prerogativae Cantuariensis...'' ("A testament of such a kind was proved at London in the presence of the venerable man ..... doctor of law at the [[Prerogative Court]] of Canterbury...")<ref>Text from will of [[James Boevey]] (d.1696)</ref> The earliest usage of the English word was in 1463, defined as "the official proving of a will".<ref name="etymonline-probate">{{OEtymD|probate|accessdate=5 January 2007}}</ref> The term "[[probative]]", used in the law of [[evidence]], comes from the same Latin root but has a different English usage.