ADMINISTRATION

ADMINISTRATION, the government, or direction of affairs; particularly the exercise of distributive justice.See GOVERNMENT and JUSTICE.

Indolent princes confide the administration of public affairs to their ministers. See MINISTER.

Civil wars are usually raised on pretense of maladministration or of abuses committed in the exercise of justice. See WAR.



ADMINISTRATION, in law, signifies the disposing of a man's goods, or estate, that died intestate, or without any will; with an intent to give an account thereof. See ADMINISTRATOR, INTESTATE, etc.

Instruments or powers of administration are taken out in the prerogative court. See PREROGATIVE.

ADMINISTRATION is sometimes also used for the direction of the affairs of a minor, a pupil, a lunatic, or the like. See MINOR, PUPIL, TUTOR, etc. see also GUARDIAN.

ADMINISTRATION is also used in respect of ecclesiastical functions. The parson has the administration of the sacraments in his parish. See PARSON, PARISH, etc. The administration of the sacrament is prohibited to persons excommunicate.See EXCOMMUNICATION.

In beneficiary matters, they distinguish two kinds of administration; temporal, which relates to the temporalities of a benefice, diocese, etc. and spiritual, to which belong the power of excommunicating, etc. See TEMPORALITY, etc.

ADMINISTRATION