delegate doubtful whether the probate or letters of administration should or should not be granted, or when any question arises in relation to the grant, or application for the grant, of any probate or letters of administration, the district delegate may, if he or she thinks proper, transmit a statement of the matter in question to the High Court which may direct the district delegate to proceed in the matter of the application, according to such instructions as to the High Court may seem necessary, or may forbid any further proceeding by the district delegate in relation to the matter of the application, leaving the party applying for the grant in question to make application to the High Court. 257. Procedure where there is contention, or district delegate thinks probate, etc. should be refused in his or her court. In every case in which there is contention, or the district delegate is of opinion that the probate or letters of administration should be refused in his or her court, the petition, and any documents that may have been filed with it, shall be returned to the person by whom the application was made in order that they may be presented to the High Court, unless the district delegate thinks it necessary, for the purposes of justice, to impound them, which he or she is authorised to do; and in that case he or she shall send them to the High Court. 258. Grant of probate to be under seal of court. Where it appears to a judge of the High Court or a district delegate that probate of a will should be granted, he or she shall grant probate under the seal of his or her court in the following manner— “I, _______________________, judge of the High Court (or district delegate) appointed for granting probate or letters of administration in ____________________________, (here insert the limits of the delegate’s jurisdiction) make known that on the ______ day of _______________, in the year ______, the last will of _______________________________________, late of ______________________, a copy of which is annexed, was proved and registered before me, and that administration of the property and credits of the deceased, and in any way concerning his or her will, was granted to _________________, the executor named in the will, he (or she) having undertaken to administer the will, and to make a full and true inventory of the property and credits, and exhibit it in this court within six months from the

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