资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   4. (Law)
      (a) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of
          the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no
          competent executor.
      (b) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an
          executor, the strictly corresponding term execution
          not being in use.

   {Administration with the will annexed}, administration
      granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or
      where his appointment of an executor for any cause has
      failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.

   Syn: Conduct; management; direction; regulation; execution;
        dispensation; distribution.