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Convict

(33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), for abolishing forfeitures for treason and felony enables the Crown to appoint administrators of the Property of any convict sentenced to death or penal servitude for any treason or felony. The

Cum testamento annexo

Cum testamento annexo [Lat.] (with the will annexed). See ADMINISTRATOR.

Curator

for a convict's property, see Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), s. 21, and see ADMINISTRATOR. This Act is not affected by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, see s. 7 (3), ibid.

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De bonis non

bonis non administratis, or more shortly de bonis non, is made where an executor dies interest or an administrator dies, and in either case without having fully administered. See ADMINISTRATION

Debt

which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liable for any excessive expenditure. What is a strictly reasonable and necessary sum varies with the

Conformity, bill of

decree settling order and payment of assets made. This bill was so called, probably because the executor or administrator undertook to conform to the decree, or the creditors were compelled by the decree to conform to it,

Documents

precepts, instruc-tions, or directions. See DISCOVERY; ROLLS. Documents means the document read as a whole and not piecemeal, Administrator of the Specified Understating of the Unit Trust of India v. Garware Polyester Ltd., AIR 2005 SC 2520.

Improvidence

a lack of foresight and care in the management of property, esp. as ground for removing an estate administrator, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 761.

Fitness

at least three years and no disciplinary proceeding should be pending against him, Dharam Vir Singh Tomar v. Administrator, Delhi Administration, AIR 1991 SC 1924 (1925): 1991 Supp (2) SCC 635.

Frauds, Statute of

authorized by writing. S. 4 now reads: No action shall be brought whereby to charge an executor or administrator upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate; or whereby to charge the defendant

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