Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 30 > Chapter 4 - Small Estate Probate Act

• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Court: means the court then exercising probate jurisdiction in the county in which the decedent had legal residence on the date of death. See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Decedent: means a person who is deceased. See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Hazardous locations: means those installations, glazed or to be glazed in commercial and public buildings, known as framed or unframed glass entrance doors. See Tennessee Code 68-120-301
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Limited letters: means the limited letters of administration of a small estate and limited letters testamentary of a small estate, as appropriate. See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Limited letters of administration of a small estate: means limited letters of administration for the decedent's property that restrict the person to whom the limited letters of administration are issued to the property itemized and identified in the petition for the limited letters, which must be attached to and made a part of the limited letters. See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Limited letters testamentary of a small estate: means limited letters testamentary for the decedent's property that restrict the person to whom the limited letters testamentary are issued to the property itemized and identified in the petition for the limited letters which must be attached to and made a part of the limited letters. See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, business trust, corporation, or other legal entity, and includes both the singular and plural, and the masculine and feminine, as appropriate. See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal representative: means the person to whom limited letters of administration of a small estate or limited letters testamentary of a small estate are issued. See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: means only personal property, or any interest in personal property, owned by the decedent on the date of death that would be subject to probate, other than personal property held as tenants by the entirety or jointly with right of survivorship, or personal property payable to a beneficiary other than the decedent's estate. See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Safety glazing material: means any glazing material, such as tempered glass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid plastic, that meets the requirements of the minimum statewide building construction safety standards established by the state fire marshal pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 68-120-301
• Small estate: means the probate estate of a decedent in which the value of the probate property does not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). See Tennessee Code 30-4-102
• Testate: To die leaving a will.