LETTERS AD COLLIGENDUM BONA DE FUNCTI, practice. In default of the
representatives and creditors to administer to the estate of an intestate,
the officer entitled to grant letters of administration, may grant to such
person as he approves, letters to collect the goods of the deceased, which
neither make him executor nor administrator; his only business being to
collect the goods and keep them in his safe custody. 2 Bl. Com. 505.