De bonis non administratis, Latin for "of goods not administered," is a legal term for assets remaining in an estate after the death or removal of the estate administrator.
In the United States's Uniform Probate Code, these titles have been replaced by successor personal representative.
[1] The most common cause of a grant of de bonis non by a court is where the administrator dies.
Such would happen, for example, when the executor of a will has obtained probate, but then dies intestate.
This is governed by Section 7 of the Administration of Estates Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo.