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

    One who administers an estate of a testator who named no executor or whose named executor cannot or will not act. See 109 Fed. 847, 54 L. R. A. 680, 4 C. C. A. 692.