Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-EC'U-TOR
EX-EC'U-TOR, n.
The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see it carried into effect. Executor in his own wrong, is one, who, without authority, intermeddles with the goods of a deceased person, by which he subjects himself to the trouble of executorship, without the profits or advantages. – Blackstone.
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