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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

This term, in its commonly accepted sense, means executors and administrators; but it may have a wider meaning, according to the intention of the person using it, and may include heirs, next of kin, descendants, assignees, grantees, receivers. and trustees in insolvency.

See Griswold v. Sawyer, 125 N. Y. 411, 26 N. E. 464 ; Wells v. Bente, 86 Mo. App. 264; Staples v. Lewis, 71 Conn. 288, 41 Atl. 815; Baynes v. Ottey, 1 Mylne & K. 465; In re Wilcox & Howe Co., 70 Co.nn. 220, 39 Atl. 163.