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noun

Executor n.

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

An executioner. (Obs.)

(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 (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... authority from Juan de Santa Cruz, superintendent of the royal magazines, executor of Juan Sevillano, without ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Various

... really defeated. It largely compelled its opponents to adopt its methods. It left a deposit which is more nearly rated at its worth at the present than it was in its own time. But it ceased to command confidence, or even interest. Samuel Johnson said, as to the publication of Bolingbroke's work by his executor, three years after the author's death: 'It was a rusty old blunderbuss, which he need not have been afraid to discharge himself, instead of leaving a half-crown to a Scotchman to let it off ...

— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore

... is the work of Bishop Stapledon, and was probably completed about 1324. The Dean and Chapter anticipated the admiration which this screen would cause in after ages, and we read that they presented William Canon, the executor of the marble work, "L4, out of their courtesy." High above the screen, as we learn from the Fabric Rolls, the rood with Mary and John rested on ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter - A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See • Percy Addleshaw

... was the residuary legatee of his father, and his own will made during his last sickness, appointed me as his executor. My daughter was made his sole heir, with two exceptions; small amounts in favor of his assistants—Jeb Jobson and Andrew Clarke were mentioned in his will—and these sums have been paid by ...

— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... Cecil has, with great kindness, permitted me to make copious extracts from Mr. Froude's letters to her mother, the late Countess of Derby. I must also express my gratitude to Sir Thomas Sanderson, Lord Derby's executor, to Cardinal Newman's literary representative Mr. Edward Bellasis, and to Mr. Arthur Clough, son of Froude's early ...

— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul

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