Letters
81letters of special administration — Letters issued to a special administrator upon his qualifying for the office. See special administrator …
82letters of administration — n. Law a document issued by the probate court or some officer who has authority, directing a person to administer the goods or property of a dead person …
83letters patent — [let′ərz pat′ nt] n. a document granting a patent: see PATENT …
84letters testamentary — n. Law a document issued by the probate court or some officer who has authority, directing the person named as executor in a will to act in that capacity …
85letters of intercommuning — An ancient writ issued by the Scottish Privy Council warning people not to harbour or have any dealings with those named, on pain of being held accessory • • • Main Entry: ↑intercommune …
86LETTERS AND LETTER WRITERS — The letter holds an honored place in Jewish history and literature and includes diplomatic correspondence, state papers, and letters as vehicles of religious or secular literature and as a means of polemics in communal and spiritual matters,… …
87Letters, Lovecraft’s — Shortly after his death, HPL’s longtime friend Maurice W. Moe wrote: “If there is ever a survey to determine the greatest letter writer in history, the claims of Lovecraft deserve close investigation” (“Howard Phillips Lovecraft: The Sage of… …
88Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle — Infobox Book | name = The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. title orig = translator = image caption = author = Washington Irving illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Observational letters… …
89Letters of the Living — The Báb s tablet to the first Letter of the Living, Mullá Husayn The Letters of the Living (Arabic: حروف الحي) was a title provided by the Báb to the first eighteen disciples of the Bábí Religion. In some understandings the Báb places himself at …
90Letters clause — Letter Let ter, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L. littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by graving the… …
