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Record Group Number: 800000
Series/Collection Number: .L 156
Creator: Florida. Circuit Court (5th Circuit : Lake County)
Title, Dates: Probate records, 1887-1928.
Amount: 16.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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Organization/Arrangement: Subdivided into (1) Indexes, arranged alphabetically; and (2) Record books, arranged by record type, and then chronologically.
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Biographical/Historical:     Lake County was created by an act of the State Legislature on May 7, 1887 (Chap. 3771, Laws).  It was formed from Sumter and Orange Counties.  The Clerk of the Circuit Court in each county serves as the official custodian of deed, marriage, and probate records.
Summary:     This series consists of a microfilm copy of probate records for Lake County, Florida from 1887 to 1928.  The series contains record of will books (1887-1928), probate order books (1887-1928), letter of testamentary record books (1888-1929), letters of administration books (1887-1927), an administration bond book (1887-1919), and a general index to files and estates (1897-1940).
    A will is a legal instrument by which people declare how they wish their property or estate to be disposed of after their death. Wills usually contain direct statements regarding the relationships between the deceased and his family and denote ownership of specific property and goods.
    Probate is the transfer of property title and rights and of legal responsibility for payment of taxes or of custody from the deceased to another party, from a person judged incompetent or insane, or from a minor to an appointed guardian.  Probate records document the administration and distribution of an individual's estate after death.
  Administration records concern people who died intestate--having no valid will and thus no provisions for their estate.  These records document the appointment by the court of an administrator for such an estate.
Finding Aids: Microfilm listing available.
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Reproduction Note: Microfilm.
Location of Originals/Duplicates: Circuit Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit, Lake County.  Office of the Clerk.  Tavares, Florida.
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Subject Access Fields: Probate records Florida --Lake County
Probate records. aat
Wills. aat
Estate inventories. aat
Lake County (Fla.)
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