Grant caeterorum meaning

A grant caeterorum (also spelt ceterorum) is a further grant of representation that authorises the administration of the rest of a deceased person’s estate where an earlier grant was expressly limited to part of the estate or to a particular purpose. It empowers the holder to collect, manage and distribute the remaining assets, while the earlier limited grant continues for the assets or purpose it covered. This is a descriptive probate practice term (Latin: “of the remainder”), not a statutory definition. It is used in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland by probate registries/offices when, for example, there has been a grant ad litem, ad colligenda bona, pendente lite, or a grant limited to settled land or specified property, and a separate personal representative is needed for the balance of the estate. It is distinct from a grant de bonis non administratis, which addresses estate left unadministered because a prior personal representative has died, ceased to act or been removed. In Scotland, the term is not generally used; similar outcomes are achieved through confirmation practice (including an eik to confirmation where an initial confirmation was limited).