Administer

[from Lsit, administrare, q, V.J To manage; to take charse and dispose of the personal property of an intestate according to law.* Used in this sense in the statute 31 £dw. III., stat. 2, c. 11. Coweil. 2 Jieeves* Hist, JSng. Law, 387. Applied in the civil law to the management of the estate of a minor. See Administrare,