Bona Defuncti
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
In default of the representatives and creditors to administer to the estate of an intestate, the officer entitled to grant letters of administration may grant, to such persons as he apceased, which neither make him executor nor administrator; his only business being to cullect the goods and keep them in his safe castody.
2 Bl. Comm. 505.