Plene Administravit

pleading, is a plea in bar entered by an executor or administrator by which he afhrms that he had not in ins possession, at the time of the commencement of the suit, nor has had at any time since, any goods of the deceased to be administered; ‘when the plaintiff replies that the defendant had goods, &c. in his possession at that time, and the parties ‘Join issue, the burden of the proof will be on the plaintiff.

Vide 15 John. R. 323; 6 T. R.10; 1 Barn. & Ald. 254; 11 Vin. Ab. 849; 12 Vin. Ab. 185; 2 Phil. Ev. 295; 8 Saund. (a) 315, n.

1; 6 Com. Dig. 31tl. render, by which the defendant avers that he has fully accounted.

1 Bac. Ab. 38.