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administration

b : the management of an estate (as of a minor) by a trustee or guardian appointed to take charge of it c : the management of assets held in a trust 3 : the execution of

deputy

appointed as a substitute with power to act 2 : a second in command or assistant who usually takes charge when his or her superior is absent ;specif : deputy sheriff

Butler

An officer in a kings or a noblemans household whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors plate etc the head servant in a large house

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Entertain

To be at the charges of to take or keep in ones service to maintain to support to harbor to keep … To be at the charges of to take or keep in ones service to maintain to support to harbor to keep

Escheator

An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place and to take charge of them

Minister

India, Art. 75(1) and Art. 164(1)] Minister, is a person appointed by the head of a Government to take charge of some department of State, Webster American, Dictionary, p. 937.

Provisional assignees

(under a former system of the bankruptcy law) were appointed under fiats in bankruptcy in the country to take charge of bankrupts' estates, etc., until the creditors' assignees were appointed.

custodian

the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act d : a person or entity appointed by a bankruptcy court to take charge of the debtor's property for purposes of administration cus·to·di·an·ship n

Insufficiency

to the specific charges in the bill. If a plaintiff conceived an answer to be insufficient, he might take exception to it in writing, stating the parts of the bill which he alleged were not answered, and … an answer in Chancery was said to be insufficient when it did not specially reply to the specific charges in the bill. If a plaintiff conceived an answer to be insufficient, he might take exception to it

Possibility on a possibility

stations. The word is also applied to the person who conveys the letters to the houses where he takes up and lays down his charge, and to the stages or distances between house and house. Hence the

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