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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Adapted to the common understanding. AD COLLIGENDUM BONA DEFUNCT). To collect the goods of the deceased. Special letters of administration granted to one or more persons, authorizing them to collect and preserve the goods of the deceased, are so called.
2 Bl. Comm. 505; 2 Steph. Comm. 241.
These are otherwise termed "letters ad colligendum," and the party to whom they are granted, a "collector."
2 Rev. St. N. Y. p. 19, §§ 38, 39.