KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

ADMIRAL

ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

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son, have been granted by the proper court He resembles an executor, but, being appoint ed by the court, and not by the deceased, he has to give security for the due administra tion of the estate, by entering into a bond with sureties, called the administration bond. Smith v. Gentry, 16 Ga. 31; Collamore v. Wilder, 19 Kan. 78. By the law of Scotland the father is what is called the "administrator-in-law" for his children. As such, he is ipso jure their tu tor while they are pupils, and their curator during their minority. The father's power extends over whatever estate may descend to his children, unless where that estate has been placed by the donor or grantor under the charge of special trustees or managers. This power in the father ceases by the child's discontinuing to reside with him, unless he continues to live at the father's expense; and with regard to daughters, it ceases on their marriage, the husband being the legal curator of his wife. Bell. A public administrator is an officer author ized by the statute law of several of the states to superintend the settlement of es tates of persons dying without relatives en titled to administer. In the civil law. A manager or conduc tor of affairs, especially the affairs of an other, in his name or behalf. A manager of public affairs in behalf of others. Calvin. A public officer, ruler, or governor. Nov. 95, gl.; Cod. 12, 8. — Domestic administrator. One appointed at the place of the domicile of the decedent; distinguished from a foreign or an ancillary ad ministrator.— Foreign administrator. One appointed or qualified under the laws of a for eign state or country, where the decedent was domiciled. ADMINISTRATRIX. A female who ad ministers, or to whom letters of administra tion have been granted. ADMINISTRAVIT. Lat He has ad ministered. Used in the phrase plene admin istravit, which is the name of a plea by an executor or administrator to the effect that he has "fully administered" (lawfully dis posed of) all the assets of the estate that have come to his hands. ADMIRAL. In European law. An of ficer who presided over the admiralitas, or collegium ammiralitatis. Locc. de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 2, § 1. In old English law. A high officer or magistrate that had the government of the king's navy, and the hearing of all causes belonging to the sea. Cowell. In the navy. Admiral is also the title of high naval officers; they are of various grades,—rear admiral, vice-admiral, admiral, admiral of the fleet, the latter being the highest

during the minority of such executor, and until he shall attain his lawful age to act. See Godo. 102. Foreign administration. That which is ex ercised by virtue of authority properly con ferred by a foreign power. Pendente lite. Administration during the suit. Administration granted during the pendency of a suit touching the validity of a will. 2 Bl. Comm. 503; Cole v. Wooden, 18 N. J. Law, 15, 20. Public administration is such as is con ducted (in some jurisdictions) by an officer called the public administrator, who is ap pointed to administer in cases where the in testate has left no person entitled to apply for letters. General administration. The grant of au thority to administer upon the entire estate of a decedent, without restriction or limita tion, whether under the intestate laws or with the will annexed. Clemens v. Walker, 40 Ala. 198. Special administration. Authority to ad minister upon some few particular effects of a decedent, as opposed to authority to ad minister his whole estate. In re Senate Bill, 12 CJolo. 193, 21 Pac. 482; Clemens v. Walker, 40 Ala. 198. — Letters of administration. The instru ment by which an administrator or adminis tratrix is authorized by the probate court, sur rogate, or other proper officer, to have the charge and administration of the goods and chattels of an intestate. See Mutual Ben. L. Ins. Co. v. Tisdale, 91 U. S. 243, 23 L. Ed. 314. ADMINISTRATION SUIT. In English practice. A suit brought in chancery, by any one interested, for administration of a de cedent's estate, when there is doubt as to its solvency. Stimson. ADMINISTRATIVE. Pertaining to ad ministration. Particularly, having the char acter of executive or ministerial action. In this sense, administrative functions or acts are distinguished from such as are judicial. People v. Austin, 20 App. Div. 1, 46 N. Y. Supp. 526. — Administrative law. That branch of pub lic law which deals with the various organs of the sovereign power considered as in motion, and prescribes in detail the manner of their activity, being concerned with such topics as the collection of the revenue, the regulation of the military and naval forces, citizenship and naturalization, sanitary measures, poor laws, coinage, police, the public safety and morals, etc. See Holl. Jur. 305-307.— Administrative officer. Politically and as used in constitu tional law, an officer of the executive depart ment of government, and generally one of in ferior rank; legally, a ministerial or executive officer, as distinguished from a judicial officer. People v. Salsbury, 134 Mich. 537, 96 N. W. 936. ADMINISTRATOR, in the most usual sense of the word, is a person to whom let ters of administration, that is, an authority to administer the estate of a deceased per