letters of administration

1. 1.

   legal document naming someone to administer an estate when no executor has been named

   Broaderlegal document

   law

Questions about letters of administration

What does letters of administration mean?

letters of administration means "legal document naming someone to administer an estate when no executor has been named".

Is letters of administration a common word?

letters of administration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.