1In this Act
“child” means offspring of the first generation, and excludes grandchildren;(enfant)
“Court” means The Probate Court of New Brunswick or The Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick, as the context requires;(Cour)
“estate” includes both real and personal property;(succession)
“lunatic” means a person mentally incompetent and includes an idiot and a person of unsound mind;(aliéné)
“personal chattels” mean automobiles and accessories, domestic animals, garden effects, household or personal articles for use or ornament, furniture, books, pictures, prints, paintings and other works of art, jewellery, video or audio reproductive equipment, musical and scientific instruments and apparatus, wines, liquors, consumable stores and other articles of personal property not amounting to an interest in land, but does not include any such chattel used at the death of a deceased person for business purposes nor money or securities for money;(personal chattels)
“personal representative” means the executor and includes an administrator and an administrator with the will annexed.(représentant personnel)
R.S., c.62, s.1; 1977, c.18, s.1; 1979, c.41, s.38; 1982, c.3, s.15; 1985, c.4, s.21; 1987, c.6, s.18