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Death Certificate

A document issued by a medical practitioner certifying the deceased state of a person or to a document issued by a person such as a registrar of vital statistics that declares the date, location and cause of a person’s death as later entered in an official register.

Legal Declaration of Death

A government’s official recognition that a person has died. Normally this is done by issuing a death certificate. In most cases, such a certificate is only issued either by a doctor’s declaration of death or upon the identification of a dead person.

Probate

The legal process whereby a will is “proved” in a court and accepted as the true last testament of a deceased person, and that it is a valid public document.