The Collaborative International Dictionary
Executory \Ex*ec"u*to*ry\, a. [LL. executorius, L. exsecutorius: cf.F. ex['e]cutoire.]
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Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.
The official and executory duties of government.
--Burke. (Law) Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract.
--Blackstone.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to administration or execution.
Usage examples of "executory".
They hoped for a safe-conduct, a revision of judgment, but he was none the less under sentence of death, executory in twenty-four hours.
Nevertheless it does not follow that an attempt to monopolize, or the actual monopoly of, the manufacture was an attempt, whether executory or consummated, to monopolize commerce, even though, in order to dispose of the product, the instrumentality of commerce was necessarily invoked.