Administrator (law)

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Administrator" law – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

In law an administrator (or administratrix for women) can be:

• a person appointed by the court to handle the estate of someone who died without a will (administrator of an estate).
• In United Kingdom bankruptcy law, an office holder appointed under an Administration Order in relation to a company in financial difficulty, as an alternative to liquidation.