South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts5—Probate jurisdiction of Supreme Court
(1) The like voluntary
and contentious jurisdiction and authority as immediately before the coming
into operation of this Act belonged to or were vested in the Supreme Court, in
relation to granting or revoking probate of wills and letters of
administration of the effects of deceased persons, shall be vested in and
exercised by the said Court in relation to granting or revoking probate of
wills and letters of administration of the estate, as well real as personal,
of deceased persons within the said State; and the Court shall have the same
power of granting probate or administration, where the only estate within the
State consists of realty, as if such estate comprised both realty and
personalty.
(2) The said Court
shall also have and exercise the like powers, and its grants and orders shall
have the like effect within the said State, in relation to the real and
personal estate therein of deceased persons, as immediately before the coming
into operation of this Act the said Court and its grants and orders
respectively had within the said State, in relation to those matters and
causes testamentary, and those effects of deceased persons, which were within
the jurisdiction of the said Court.
(3) All duties which
by statute or otherwise were, immediately before the coming into operation of
this Act, imposed on or to be performed by the said Supreme Court in respect
to probates, or administrations, or matters or causes testamentary within its
jurisdiction shall continue to be performed by such Court within the said
State.