What is "executor de son tort"

Executor \Ex*ec"u*tor\, n. [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. ex['e]cuteur. Cf. Executer.]

1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
   --Shak.

2. An executioner. [Obs.]

   Delivering o'er to executors paw? The lazy, yawning drone.
   --Shak.

3. (Law) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

   Executor de son tort [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

Tort \Tort\, n. [F., from LL. tortum, fr. L. tortus twisted, crooked, p. p. of torqure to twist, bend. See Torture.]

1. Mischief; injury; calamity. [Obs.]

   That had them long opprest with tort.
   --Spenser.

2. (Law) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.

   Executor de son tort. See under Executor.

   Tort feasor (Law), a wrongdoer; a trespasser.
   --Wharton.