The Court of Probate Act 1857
WHEREAS it is expedient that all Jurisdiction in relation to the Grant and Revocation of Probates of Wills and Letters of Administration in England should be exercised, in the Name of Her Majesty, by One Court: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: