from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun Law A person who is appointed by a testator to execute the testator's will.
noun A person who carries out or performs something.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who executes or performs; a doer; an executer.
noun An executioner.
noun Specifically, the person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who executes or performs; a doer.
noun obsolete An executioner.
noun (Law) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
noun (Law) a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A person who carries out some task.
noun law Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will
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The testatrix saying, that she hoped her executor would not take it ill that she gave so much from htm, an evidence that the surplus was Intended for the executor* II.
"If the executor is a child who dislikes his step-mother or step-siblings, he or she might opt out of the portability that would save tax when the step-mother dies," says Ron Aucutt , an estate attorney with McGuireWoods in Washington.
Therefore, sufficient is not attributed to Christ, when he is called executor of the decree which had been previously made, and without the consideration of him as [the person] on whom that decree is founded.
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