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Terms Used In Alabama Code 43-8-160

  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.

Upon the death of a testator, any executor, devisee, or legatee named in the will, or any person interested in the estate, or who has custody of such will may have the will proved before the proper probate court.