Executory

Executive; pertaining to the execution of official duty. Cent. Diet. To be executed in the future; of such a nature as to take effect on a future contingency.

Performing official duties; contingent; also, personal estate of a deceased; whatever may be executed, — as, an executory sentence or judgment. is made, for which it is the legal equivalent. See Consideration.

That which is yet to be executed or performed; that which remains to be carried into operation or effect; incomplete ; depending upon a future performance or event. The opposite of executed.

— Executory consideration. A consideration which is to be performed after the contract for which it is a consideration is made.

— Executory fines. These are the fines sur cogmzanoe de droit tantum; sur concessit; and sur done, grant et render. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74.

— Executory interests. A general term, comprising ali future estates and interests in land or personalty, other than reversions and remainders.

— Executory limitation. A limitation of a future interest by deed or will; if by will, it is also called an "executory devise."

— Executory process. A process which can be resorted to in the following cases, namely:
(1) When the right of the creditor arises from an act importing confession of judgment, and which contains a privilege or mortgage in his favor;
(2) when the creditor demands the execution of a judgment which has been rendered by a tribunal different from that within whose jurisdiction the execution is sought Code Prac. La. art. 732; Marin v. Lalley, 17 Wall. 14, 2l In Ed. 596. As to executory "Bequests," "Contracts," "Devises," "Estates," "Remainders," "Trusts," and "Uses," sce those titles.

Unfinished; yet to be performed; future. Executory consideration: a consideration which is to be performed after the making of the promise on which it is founded. Executory contract: a contract which is to be executed at some future time; a contract upon which something remains to be done, — as where the party binds himself to do, or not to do, a particular thing. Executory devise: in a general sense, a devise of a future interest in lands, not to take effect at the testator's death, but limited to arise and vest upon some future contingency; more strictly, a limitation by will of a future contingent interest in lands, contrary to the rules of the common law. Executory estate: an estate depending on some future circumstance or contingency, which must happen before any interest can pass. Executory remainder: v. Contingent remainder. Executory trust: a trust which can have full effect only upon the doing of some further act by the author of the trust, or the trustee, and which in the meantime rests in covenant

That which is yet to be executed or performed; that which remains to be carried into operation or effeet; incomplete; depending upon a future performance or event. The opposite of ewecuted,

Unfinished; to be completed;

That which is to be executed or performed; relating to the future; depending upon a future event, or act. See infra.

Whatever may be executed as an executory sentence or judzment, an executory contract.