from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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. 11 Vin. Ab. 111; 2 P. Wms. 340; Com. Dig.
Administration, B I; 1 Root's 11. 425. And it seems that though the estate
has been distributed, an administrator de nonis non may be appointed, if
debts remain unsatisfied. 1 Root's R. 174.