Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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ad colligendum

[Law Latin] For collecting <administrator ad colligendum >.

ad colligendum bona defuncti

[Law Latin "for collecting the goods of the deceased"] Special letters of administration authorizing a person to collect and preserve a decedent's property.

letters ad colligendum bona defuncti

n. [Law Latin] Hist. An authorization from a judicial officer to an approved person to collect and maintain the goods of a person who died intestate. ( These letters were issued only if no representative or creditor existed to exercise this function.