Administration

trusts, is the management of the estate of an intestate, a minor, a lunatic, a habitual drunkard, or other person who is incapable of managing his own affairs, entrusted to an administrator or other trustee by authority of law. Ina more confined sense, and in which it will be used in this article, administration is the management of an intestate’s estate, or of the estate of a testator who at the time administration was granted had no executor. Administration is granted by a public officer duly authorised to delegate the trust; he is sometimes called surrogate, judge of probate, register of wills and for granting letters of administration. It is to be granted to such persons as the statutory provisions of the several states direct. There are several kinds of administrations be-« !sides the usual kind which gives to the administrator the management of all the personal estate of the deceased for an unlimited time. Administration durante minori etate is granted during the minority of an executor, and ceases on his coming of age. Administration durante absentia is granted to some person during the absence of the next of kin. Administration pendente lite is granted pending a suit commenced to test the validity of a paper purporting to be a will. Administration de bonis non, is where an executor or administrator is dead, and no one is left to administer the goods retration cum testamento annero is one death of one of several joint adminiswhich is granted with the will an- trators, the whole authority is vested ‘nexed. in the survivor or survivors.

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