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De bonis propriis






De bonis propriis

Of his own goods. When an executor or administrator has been guilty of a devastavit, he is responsible for the loss which the estate has sustained, de bonis propriis.

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When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.

Executor
A person specifically appointed by a testator to administer the will ensuring that final wishes are respected (i.e. that the will is properly "executed"). An executor is a personal representative.

Administrator
A person who administers the estate of a person deceased. The administrator is appointed by a court and is the person who would then have power to deal with the debts and assets of a person who died intestate. Female administrators are called "administratrix." An administrator is a personal representative.

Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.

Devastavit
Latin for "he has wasted." This is the technical word referring to a personal representative who has mismanaged the estate and allowed an avoidable loss to occur. This action opens the personal representative to personal liability for the loss.

Loss
contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.

Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.



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De bene esse
Practice. A technical phrase applied to certain proceedings which are deemed to be well done for the present, or until an exception or other avoidance, that is, conditionally, and in that meaning the phrase is usually accepted.

De bonis
Of, for, or concerning goods or property.

De bonis asportatis
(United Kingdom) Of goods carried away .

De bonis non
This phrase is used in cases where the goods of a deceased person have not all been administered. When an executor or administrator has been appointed, and the estate is not fully settled, and the executor or administrator is dead, has absconded, or from any cause has been removed, a second administrator is appointed to to perform the duty remaining to be done, who is called an administrator de bonis non, an administrator of the goods not administered and he becomes by the appointment the only representative of the deceased.



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De arbitratione facta, writ
In the ancient English law, when an action was brought for the same cause of action which had been before settled by arbitration, this writ was brought.

De bene esse
Practice. A technical phrase applied to certain proceedings which are deemed to be well done for the present, or until an exception or other avoidance, that is, conditionally, and in that meaning the phrase is usually accepted.

De bonis
Of, for, or concerning goods or property.

De bonis asportatis
(United Kingdom) Of goods carried away .

De bonis non
This phrase is used in cases where the goods of a deceased person have not all been administered. When an executor or administrator has been appointed, and the estate is not fully settled, and the executor or administrator is dead, has absconded, or from any cause has been removed, a second administrator is appointed to to perform the duty remaining to be done, who is called an administrator de bonis non, an administrator of the goods not administered and he becomes by the appointment the only representative of the deceased.

De bonis propriis

De contumace capiendo
The name of a writ issued for the arrest of a defendant who is in contempt of the ecclesiastical court.

De cursu
Of course; as a matter of course.

De die in diem
(United Kingdom) From day to day.

De domo reparanda
The name of an ancient common law writ, by which one tenant in common might compel his co-tenant to concur in the expense of repairing the property held in common.

De donis
Concerning grants.

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