Executor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 39 U.S. 33 - Elias Kane v. Gabriel Paul · 1840Most cited · 35 citing opinions
title to chattels
The appointment of an executor vests the whole personal estate in the person so appointed. He holds as trustee for the purposes of the will, but he holds the legal title in all the chattels of the testator. He is, for the purpose of administering them, as much the legal proprietor of those chattels, as was the testator himself while alive. This is incompatible with any power in the ordinary to transfer those chattels to any other person by the grant of administration on them. His grant can pass nothing; it conveys no right, and is a void act.
How often courts cite the case defining “Executor”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Executor” — 35 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.