ADMINISTRATOR, in Scots Law, a person legally empowered to act for another whom the law presumes incapable of acting for himself. Thus tutors or curators are sometimes styled administrators in law to pupils, minors, or fatuous persons. But more generally the term is used to imply that power which is conferred by the law upon a father over the persons and property of his children during their minority. See LAW.
ADMINISTRATOR is sometimes used for the president of a province: for a person appointed to receive, manage, and distribute, the revenues of an hospital or religious house; for a prince who enjoys the revenues of a secularized bishop; and for the regent of a king-
dom during the minority of a prince, or a vacancy of the throne.