Executor

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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. Executor a legfe constitutus: an executor appointed by law; the ordinary of the diocese. Executor a testatore constitutus: an executor appointed by a testator. Executor ab episcopo constitutus, or executor dativns: an executor appointed by the bishop; an administrator to an intestate. Executor testament!: an executor of a will. In the civil law. A ministerial officer who executed or carried into effect the judgment or sentence in a cause.