§41-5-20. Title to Real Estate Devised by Wills; Rights of Devisees and Bona Fide Purchasers
The title of a bona fide purchaser of real estate, without notice and for valuable consideration, from the devisee or devisees of a testator, a will of whom has been duly admitted to probate devising such real estate, shall not be affected or impaired by any devise or other disposition of any such real estate […]
§41-5-5. Procedure for Probate in Solemn Form
The county court, sitting in a regular or special session, shall hear and determine all proceedings to admit a will to probate in solemn form. Upon or at any time after the production of a will, any person may offer the will for probate in solemn form by filing in the county court having jurisdiction […]
§41-5-6. Hearing and Decision
If no contest be made, the court may, on the return day of the summons on the petition, and, if contest be made, on the return day of the process upon notice of contest, or at any day thereafter fixed by the court, proceed to hear and determine the question of probate, and enter such […]
§41-5-7. Appeal From Probate Order — When to Be Taken; Procedure
Any person feeling himself aggrieved by any order or judgment of the county commission admitting or refusing to admit any will to probate may, within three months, or, if such a person be under any disability within three months after such disability ceases, file his petition in the circuit court of such county, or before […]
§41-5-8. Appeal From Probate Order — Other Testamentary Papers to Be Produced; Jury Trial if Desired
If there be more than one testamentary paper in question in any such proceeding, the circuit court shall order them all to be produced. The circuit court shall order a trial by jury, if demanded by any person interested, to ascertain whether the will in question, or if there be more than one, which of […]
§41-5-9. Order as Bar to Suit in Equity
Every such order or judgment of a county court not appealed from in proceedings for probate in solemn form, or in an ex parte proceeding which has been converted into a proceeding in solemn form by a contest therein, and every such order or judgment of a circuit court on appeal, shall be a bar […]
§41-5-10. Ex Parte Procedure to Probate; Appeal
At, or at any time after, the production of a will, any person may move the county court having jurisdiction, or the clerk thereof in the vacation of the court, for the probate of such will, and the court or the clerk thereof, as the case may be, may, without notice to any party, proceed […]
§41-5-11. Impeachment or Establishment of Will — by Person Who Was Not Party to Prior Proceeding; Trial by Jury
After a judgment or order entered as aforesaid in a proceeding for probate ex parte, any person interested who was not a party to the proceeding, or any person who was not a party to a proceeding for probate in solemn form, may proceed by complaint to impeach or establish the will, on which complaint, […]
§41-5-12. Impeachment or Establishment in Court — by Person Under Disability or Nonresident
Notwithstanding the two preceding sections, any person interested who, at the time of the judgment or order is under the age of eighteen years, or is a convict or a mentally incapacitated person, may file a complaint to impeach or establish the will, within one year after he becomes of age, or other disability ceases; […]
§41-3-10. Uniformity of Application and Construction
Sections eight through eleven of this article shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this legislation among states enacting it.