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54 ADMINISTRATION
D. B. N.
O F
LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION.
De bonis non administratis.
The very appellation of this kind of letters
doth fully imply their use, viz. that they are
issuable on such estates, whereof the goods and
chattels have not been fully administred, by a
former administrator; and are granted only in
the following cases.
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First, Upon the death of a former executor or administrator,
before he hath fully administred.
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Here, the deputy commissary upon application
to him made, issues letters de bonis non, empowering
such person to possess himself of such
part of the estate, as is left unadministred, and
to finish the administration thereof, under the
name of administrator de bonis non, to the deceased
intestate: but such administrator de bonis
non is not in any wise to interfere with, or alter
any disposition made, or transaction carried on
by the former administrator, wherein no wrong
or fraud appears, all such proceedings being
good and valid in law: in case of testacy, by
the death of the executor, a person so appointed
is called an administrator de bonis non, with a |
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