ADMINISTRATOR, in Scots Law, a person legally
empowered to act for another whom the law presumes
incapable of acting for himself. Thus tutors or cura-
tors are sometimes styled administrators in law to pu-
pils, minors, or fatuous persons. But more generally
the term is used to imply that power which is confer-
red by the law upon a father over the persons and
property of his children during their minority. See
LAW.