The term "representative title" stands for something in which a person can be vested with an authority to deal with the assets of another alive or dead to protect or to achieve certain purposes irrespective of whether he is having right, title or interest over the property or not and the actions done by such person within the said authority would stand valid and binding.

Part VIII of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 speak with respect to the concept of a "representative title" which can be extended to the person in whose favour a probate or letters of administration can be issued. The Court or a competent authority can vest such authority in the form of a "representative title" to an executor named and appointed under a testament by way of probate or to any other person by way of letters of administration. Hence, the term "probate" stands for an authority given to an executor by way of a "representative title" to "administer" the estate of a testator/testatrix.

In the absence of any such executor or nomination or appointment under the testament, it is within the jurisdiction of the Court or competent authority to appoint a person for the said purpose to administer the estate of the deceased by vesting a representative title for that purpose with him. The purpose to be performed and achieved both under letters of administration and probate by the executor and administrator and the vesting of representative title with them are identical and same in all respects.