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Definition of Letters of administration
1. Noun. Legal document naming someone to administer an estate when no executor has been named.
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Lexicographical Neighbors of Letters Of Administration
Literary usage of Letters of administration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"... (h) Before the Revolution, the power of granting letters testamentary and
letters of administration resided in New York, in the colonial governor, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"ON PROBATES AND letters of administration. paper, whereon any probate of any will or
... ('С'5Г taining probate of his will or letters of administration of ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"(2) The ecclesiastical court never grants an exemplification of letters of
administration, but only a certificate, that administration was granted; ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"turn, and the petitioner brings error. Affirmed. Mrs. Burkhalter applied for
letters of administration on the estate of Mrs. ..."
5. New Probate Law and Practice: With Annotations and Forms for Use in Alaska by William Smithers Church, Curtis Hillyer (1920)
"Notice of hearing of petition for letters of administration. § 255. ... What proofs
must be made before granting letters of administration. § 265. ..."
6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"Probate and letters of administration may be granted in respect of real estate
only, although there is no personal estate. Subject to the powers, rights, ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"The original book of acts directing letters of administration to be granted, with
the surrogate's fiat for the ваше, is evidence of the title of the party ..."
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