(a) Unless specified to the contrary, the following words whenever used in these rules shall have the following meanings: (1) With respect to proceedings in the Probate Division of the Superior Court, the word "court" shall mean the judge of probate elected for the district, or another probate judge or superior judge specially assigned by the administrative judge to sit in that district, or a member of the Vermont bar acting for that judge. (2) The word "register" shall mean the clerk of the Superior Court for the unit in which a proceeding is pending or a member of the court staff assigned by the court administrator to perform the functions of register. (3) The term "petitioner's attorney" or "party's attorney" or any like term shall include the party appearing without counsel. (b) The following terms and variations of them wherever they appear in these rules have the indicated meaning unless the context clearly dictates a different meaning: (1) "Superior Court" means "Civil Division of the Superior Court." (2) "Court" when not used in the sense intended in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), means the Probate Division in the appropriate district or a judicial tribunal established under the law of another state, as appropriate. Added and eff. 2/24/2011.