Category:Executor

Ex*ec"u*tor, n. Etym: [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. exécuteur. Cf. Executer.]

1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak.

2. An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa. . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.

3. (Law)

Defn: The person appointed by a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.