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Deputy Commissary's Guide within the Province of Maryland, 1774
Volume 139, Page 56   View pdf image (33K)
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56        TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIONS.

The first, are letters of administration durante
                            minori ætate

 

    Which are granted during the minority, or
non age of the deceased's child, or other person
having a prior right to such administration, or
during the minority of an infant executor,
which minority is by the common law limitted
to twenty-one years, in case of intestacy, and
to seventeen for an infant executor.  But by
our acts of assembly the infant administrator is
declared to be within like law with infant executors,
that is, shall be of full age to administer,
when he arrives at the age of seventeen years.
 
The second are letters of administration durante
                                absentiâ.

 
    Granted during the absence beyond sea, of
such child or other person, not a minor,
having a prior right to such administration.
 
The third, are letters of administration, pendente
                                lite.

 
    Granted during the continuance of a contest,
depending between two or more persons, concerning
the right to such administration.
 
    To administrators so appointed, the same
letters as in common administration are issued,
only adding to their names what kind of administrators


 
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