noun, plural yeomen. 1. a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy. 2. British. a farmer who cultivates his own land. 3. History/Historical. one of a class of lesser freeholders, below the gentry, who cultivated their own land, early admitted in England to political rights.
Ancillary Probate. An ancillary probate is a proceeding when a person dies with property in. more than one state or dies in one state with property in another. Our. office can help in all ancillary probate situations.
The defendant refuses to pay the judgment. The plaintiff begins another proceeding for a writ of attachment so that the judgment will be satisfied by the sale of the defendant's property seized under the writ. The attachment proceeding is ancillary, or subordinate, to the negligence suit. An ancillary proceeding is sometimes called an ancillary suit or bill. A claim for Alimony is an ancillary claim dependent upon the primary claim that there are sufficient legal grounds for a court to grant a Divorce.