The court in its opinion affirmed the doctrine laid down in Blake v. Butler, supra, that, "the court which first takes jurisdiction of the subject must exclusively adjudicate, and neither party can be compelled into another court for anything that may be adjudicated by the first" and went on to say further, "We think the more appropriate place for the settlement of the accounts of an administrator in the first instance is in the Probate Court from whence he obtained his authority to administer, and to which he expressly bound himself to account." In Gorman v. McCabe, 24 R.I. 245, a case in which a question of constructive fraud arose, this court assumed original jurisdiction on the ground that it would not be within the province of a court of law to declare void the release in question. We have examined the case of Moulton v. Smith, 16 R.I. 126 where it was held that an administrator being entitled to retain out of the estate of his wife so much as was necessary to reimburse him for the funeral and probate expenses paid by him and to compensate himself as administrator, such right of retainer was equivalent to a special lien enforceable by himself for his own benefit and might be enforced in equity after his death for the benefit of his estate.