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Letters of administration   /lˈɛtərz əv ædmˌɪnɪstrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Letters of administration

noun
1.
Legal document naming someone to administer an estate when no executor has been named.






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"Letters of administration" Quotes from Famous Books



... friend—her only relation. We were not on terms, which is to be deplored now, but he never WOULD be on terms. He was not fond of us. He was eccentric—he was very eccentric. Unless he has left a will (which is not at all likely) I shall take out letters of administration. I have come down to look after the property; it must be sealed up, it must be protected. I have come down," repeats Grandfather Smallweed, hooking the air towards him with all his ten fingers at once, ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... short of this imagine that he will find satisfaction in the prim pages of a professional lawyer's modern edition. These, indeed, are not truly the Statutes at large, but rather their pedantic and conventional descendants, who have taken out letters of administration to their wild ancestors. They omit all the repealed Statutes in which these ancestors might be found really at large sowing their wild oats, and consequently all that would give them interest and zest for those in search of ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton



Words linked to "Letters of administration" :   instrument, official document, legal document, jurisprudence, law, legal instrument



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