executor
playSimple Definition of executor
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: someone who is named in a will as the person who will make sure that the instructions in the will are properly followed
Full Definition of executor
1 a : one who executes something b obsolete : executioner
2 a : the person appointed by a testator to execute a will b : literary executor
Examples of executor in a sentence
He named his daughter as his executor.
Origin and Etymology of executor
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin exsecutor, from exsequi
First Known Use: 13th century
Law Dictionary
executor
playLegal Definition of executor
: a person named by a testator to execute or carry out the instructions in a will — compare administrator
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