Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
PROBATED
Verb
probated
simple past tense and past participle of probate
Source: Wiktionary
PROBATE
Pro"bate, n. Etym: [From L. probatus, p. p. of probare to prove. See Prove.]
1. Proof. [Obs.] Skelton.
2. (Law) (a) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved. Bouvier. Burrill. (b) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.
Pro"bate, a.
Definition: Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record. Probate Court, or Court of Probate, a court for the probate of wills.
– Probate duty, a government tax on property passing by will. [Eng.]
Pro"bate v. t.
Definition: To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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