Letters
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Epistles; despatches; written messages, usually on paper, folded up and sealed, and sent by one person to another.
1 Caines (N. Y.) 582.
LETTERS AD COLLIGENDUM BONA DEfuncti
In practice
In default of the representatives and creditors to administer the estate of an intestate, the officer entitled to grant letters of administration may grant, to such person as he approves, "letters to collect the goods of the deceased," which neither make him executor nor administrator; his only business being to collect the goods, and keep them in his safe custody.
2 Bl. Comm. 505.