Definition of Administration Suit

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Administration suit
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    An action by a creditor to subject a decedent’s estate to the payment of his claim.

  • Administration Suit
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In English practice. A suit brought in chancery, by any one interested, for administration of a decedent's estate, when there is doubt as to its solvency. Stimson.