Definitions
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 atestator toadminister awill ; anadministrator .
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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Examples
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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.
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How to accomplish the same in executor, with multiple words, in Executor? hakujin1 joelena
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May 07, 2009 at 8: 46 AM you can also do this in executor and define a hotkey for this action
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This can be done similarly in executor, or as a keyword, which seems to work flawlessly. paintbox
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"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.
IRS Clarifies Estate Rules Laura Saunders 2011
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Legally, an executor is a fiduciary, who is expected to act prudently and be impartial.
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In it Michael names the executor of the estate to be Peter Pan.
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He ` s also, obviously, personal representative and executor, which is a different title.
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'Sandra's sister Beth was what you'd call executor of her estate.
Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998
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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.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956
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