Executor

[L. Lat. executor; L. Fr. executour.] A person appointed by a testator, in his last will and testament, to carry it into effect or execution after his decease, and to dispose of his property according to the tenor of the will.* Wood's Inst. 310. CowelL Blount, Wkishaw.

A person appointed by a testator

and whose appointment is con6rmed by the proper court, to execute his will, and to represent him in his personal rights and liabilities.

Brande.

He to whom another man commits by will the execution of hb last will and testament.

2 BL Com. 603. See 1 Williams on Exec. 185, et seq.

This word has been adopted without change from the Latin of the earliest writers on English law. Glanv. lib.

7, c. 6.

Bract. fol.

20, 61. Stat. Westm. 2, c. 19.

See supra. Lord Hardwicke, in Androvin v. Poilblanc, calls it a " barbarous term," unknown to the civil law, the proper term in that law, as to goods, being h€Bres testamentarius.

3 Atk. 209, 301.,