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36. No probate or letters of administration, with the
will annexed, shall issue until after the lapse of seven
days from the death of the deceased, unless under the
direction of the judge.
37. No letters of administration shall issue until after
the lapse of 14 clear days from the death of the de-
ceased, unless under the direction of the judge.
38. The registrars may, in cses where they deem it
necessary, require proof, in-addition to the oath of the
executor or administrator, of the identity of the de-
ceased or of the party applying for the grant.
39. In every case where probate or administration is,
for the first time, appliedfor after thelapse of three ears
from the death of the deceased, the reasons of the telay
is to be certified to the registrars. Should the certificate
be unsatisfactory the registrars are to require an affidavit.
40. The oath of administrators, and of administrators
with the will annexed, is to be so worded as to clear off
all persons having a prior right to the grant, and the
grant is to show on the face of it how the prior interests
have been cleared off.

41. The usual oath of administrators is, as well as that
of executors and administrators with the will, to be
reduced into writing, and to be subscribed and sworn
by them as an affidavit, and then filed in the' registry.
42. Every will era copy of a will to which an executor
or administrator with the will id sworn should be marked
by such executor or administrator and by the person
before whom he is sworn.

43. After motions have been made before the judge in
court with regard to applications for probate and admi-
nistration made at the district registries, the registrars
are, unless the judge shall otherwise direct, to return to
the district registrars the original papers and documents,
with the directions of the judge thereon.
44. Papers and other documents may be transmitted
by the registrars of the principal registry to the district
registry through the post-office. Such letters or packets
are to be superscribed witnthe words, "On her Majesty's
service," and may be registered if thought necessary.
45. In the case of persons residing out of Engrad,
administrations with the will annexed, and administra-
tions, may be granted to their attorney, acting under a
power of attorney duly attested. _ •_ _

46. The addition aid true place of abode of every
person waking an affidavit is to be inserted therein.

47. In every affidavit made by two or more persons,
the names of the several persons making it are t, be
written in the jarat.
48. No affidavit will be admitted in any matter
depending in the Court of Probate in the jurat of which
there is any interlineation or erasure.
49. Where an affidavit is made by any person who is
blind, or who from his or her signature or otherwise
appears to be illiterate, the registrar, commissioner, or
other person before whom such affidavit is made, is to
state in the jurat that the affidavit was read in the pre-
sence of the party making the same, and that snob pal ty
s-emed perfectly to understand the same, and also that
the said party made his or her mark, or wrote his or her
signature, in the presence of the registrar, commissioner,
or other person before whom the affidavit was made.
50. No affidavit is to be deemed sufficient which has
been sworn before the party on whose behalf the same
is offered, or before his proctor, solicitor, or attorney,
or before a clerk of his proctor, solicitor, or attorney.
51. Proctors, solicitors, or attorneys, and their clerks
respectively, if acting for any other proctors, solicitors,
or attorneys, shall be subject to the rules in respect of
taking affidavits which are applicable to those in whose
stead they are acting.
52. A caveat shall remain in force for the space of six
months only, and then expire and be of no effect ; but
caveats may be renewed from time to time as heretofore.
53. The registrars shall, immediately upon a caveat
being iodged, send notice thereof to the registrars of any
district in which it is alleged the deceased resided at
the time of his death, or in which he is lnown to have
had a fixed place of abode at the time of his death.,
54. Nocaveat shall affect any grant made on the day on
which the caveat is entered, unless 'laic, of such caveat
has been received prior to the grant passing the seal.
55. A. caveat shall be warned at the place mentioned
in it as the address of the person who entered it.
56. It shall be sufficient for the warning of a caveat
that a registrar send by the public post a warning signed
by himself, and directed to the person who entered it,
at the address mentioned in it.

57. Any person intending to oppose a grant of probate
or letters of administration, must appear, either person-
ally, or by hie proctor, solicitor, or attorney, and enter
an appearance in the principal registry. 'This rule is to
apply whether the person intending to oppose the grant
has or has not been previously warned to a caveat or
served with a citation,

53. Citations against all persons in general, and other
instruments, heretofore required to be served by affix'ng
them in some public place, are in future to be served by
the insertion of the same as advertisements in such of
the leading morning and evening papers, and such of the
local papers, as the judge may from time to time direct.
Such citations can only be allowed to issue in cases
where there is an affidavit to lead them.

59. The registrars are not to allow probate of the will,
or administration with the will annexed, of any blind
person, or of any obviously illiterate or ignorant person,
to issue, unless they have previously satisfied themselves
that the said will was read over to the deceased before
its execution, or that the deceased had at such time
knowledge of its contents.
60. Whenever, subsequently t) a grant having been
made, the value of the personal estate and effects of the
deceased person is re•se orn under a different amount, or
any renunciation is filed, or any alteration is made in the
grant, nctice of such re-swearing, renunciation, or alter-
ation is without delay to be forwarded by the registrars
of the principal registry to all the district registrars.
61. The seal is not to be affixed to any probate or
letters of administration granted in Ireland, so as to give
operation thereto as if the grant bad been made by the
Court of Probate in England, unless such probate or
administration be duly stamped in respect of the per
sonal estate and effects of which the deceased diet pos-
sessed in England, and unless the same appear from a
stamp 011 the probate or letters of administration ex
preset), denoting tho same, or unless the same appear
from a certificate of the Commissioners of Inland Re-
venue or their proper officer.
62. In all cases where application iv made for letters
of admiuistration (either with or without a will annexed)
of the goads of a bastard dying a bachelor, or a spinster,
or a widower, or widow, without issue, or of a person
dying without known relation, notice of vela application
is to be given to her Majesty's prnrator;geneial, in