Co-Executor
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
One who is a joint executor with one or more others.
See Executor.
C0GNATI, COGNATES.
In Civil Law. All those persons who can trace their blood to a single ancestor ancestress. technical sense; but as a word of discourse In English it signifies, generally, allied by blood, related in origin, of the same family. Originally, the maternal relationship had no influence in the formation of the Roman family, nor in the right of inheritance. But the edict of the praetor established what was called the Praetorian succession, or the bonorum possessio, in favor of cognates in certain cases.
Dig. 38. 8.
See Paterfamilias; Ag.\tati.