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executor

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Executor is a software application that allows Motorola 68000 -based classic Mac OS programs to be run on various x86 -based operating systems . Executor was created by ARDI (Abacus Research and Development, Inc.). As of 2005, Executor development has been ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who carries out some task. 2 (label en legal) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator. 3 (context obsolete English) An executioner.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "person appointed to see that a will is carried into effect," from Anglo-French executour , from Latin executorem / exsecutorem , agent noun from exsequi / exsequi "follow after; carry out, accomplish" (see execution ). Fem. form executrix is attested ...

Usage examples of executor.

Inasmuch as it is within the power of a State to provide that one who has undertaken administration of an estate shall remain subject to the order of its courts until said administration is closed, it follows that there can be no question as to the validity of a judgment for unadministered assets obtained on service of publication plus service personally upon an executor in the State in which he had taken refuge and in which he had been adjudged incompetent.

Mel was the eschatological counselor of the Cozzano clan, drafter of wills, executor of estates, godfather of children, and if the whole world turned to decadence and strife one day and civilization collapsed, and Dad were trapped on a hilltop surrounded by the heathen, Mel would shoot himself in the head so that Dad could use his corpse as a rampart.

Moreover, I encharge the said executors to take my body to Brittany, to the Church of Our Lady, where lie all those of my lineage of Rocasalada.

In his will Kos Kosciuszko named Blake Murdock the executor of his estate.

Therefore, and to enable the said Gilbert Burns to make good his said engagement, wit ye me to have assigned, disponed, conveyed and made over to, and in favours of, the said Gilbert Burns, his heirs, executors, and assignees, who are always to be bound in like manner, with, himself, all and sundry goods, gear, corns, cattle, horses, nolt, sheep, household furniture, and all other moveable effects of whatever kind that I shall leave behind me on my departure from this Kingdom, after allowing for my part of the conjunct debts due by the said Gilbert Burns and me as joint tacksmen of the farm of Mossgiel.

Supremely pleased with himself, the executor headed for his private quarters, Shok Tinoktin moving to follow.

For hours and hours, the executor and Shok Tinoktin had studied the planetary courses and the positioning of the New Republic ship and had launched the missiles from a point where the initial explosive liftoff and subsequent burn would be most difficult to detect.

I direct that all my funeral expenses should be paid and I appoint my cousin Charles Vyse as my executor.

On the other hand, judicial proceedings in one State, under which inheritance taxes have been paid and the administration upon the estate has been closed, are denied full faith and credit by the action of a probate court in another State in assuming jurisdiction and assessing inheritance taxes against the beneficiaries of the estate, when under the law of the former State the order of the probate court barring all creditors who had failed to bring in their demand from any further claim against the executors was binding upon all.

Similarly, there is no such relation of privity between an executor appointed in one State and an administrator c.

Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.

Executor Nom Anor toyed idly with a sacworm of dragweed broth while he waited for the shaper drone to finish its report.

Executor Nom Anor ran for his coralcraft as though pursued by krayt dragons.

On the far side of the dwarf viewspider, Executor Nom Anor brandished his imperturbable needle-toothed smile.

Therefore, and to enable the said Gilbert Burns to make good his said engagement, wit ye me to have assigned, disponed, conveyed and made over to, and in favours of, the said Gilbert Burns, his heirs, executors, and assignees, who are always to be bound in like manner, with, himself, all and sundry goods, gear, corns, cattle, horses, nolt, sheep, household furniture, and all other moveable effects of whatever kind that I shall leave behind me on my departure from this Kingdom, after allowing for my part of the conjunct debts due by the said Gilbert Burns and me as joint tacksmen of the farm of Mossgiel.