Executor.L

Lat. [from exequi, or exsequi, to follow up, execute or perform.] In old English law. A person appointed or authorized to execute or perform a duty or trust; especially to manage and dispose of the property or estate of a deceased person; an executor. Executor a lege constitutus; an executor appointed by law; the ordinary of the diocese. 1 Williams on Exec. 185. Executor ab episcopo constitutus, or executor dativus; an executor appointed by the bishop; an administrator to an intestate. Id. ibid. Executor a testatore constitutus; an executor appointed by a testator. Id. ibid. Otherwise termed executor testamentarius; a testamentary executor. Id. ibid. This is the modern sense of the word, commonly expressed in the old books by the single word, executor. Glanv. lib. 7, c. 6. Bract. fol. 20, 61.