Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by function]
8. records (documents)
9. [records by provenance]
10. government records
11. [government records by function]
12. judicial records
13. [judicial records by provenance]
14. civil court records

Narrower term/s

• estate administration records[+]
  • letters of administration
  • letters testamentary
  • estate inventories [+]
    • room-by-room inventories

Anotations

Scope note:

Records generated by probate courts, which have general powers over the probate of wills, administration of estates, and, in some states, over the appointment of guardians or the adoption of minors.