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administration definition - legal

n

  1. A courtÂ’s management and distribution of property during a judicial proceeding.
  2. The management and settlement of the estate of an intestate or of a testator who has no executor by a person appointed by the court.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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