| Economics - 1853 - 448 pages
...it is most commonly used with reference to the execution of sentence of death. [SHESIFF.] EXECUTOR. An executor is he to whom another man commits by will the execution of his last will and testament. The origin of executors seems to be traceable to a constitution of Manuel... | |
| Henry John Stephen - Law - 1858 - 718 pages
...be made (A) ; but it is capable of being made either by express words or by a clear implication (/). [An executor is he to whom another man commits by will the execution of his last will and testament. And all persons are capable of being executors, that are capable of making... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...revocation of a prior will. We are next to consider what is an executor, and what an administrator, and how they are both to be appointed. An executor...another man commits by will the execution of that his last will and testament. And all persons are capable of being executors, that are capable of making... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...party lives 502 and subsequent marriage and birth of a child constitutes an implied revocation 502 an executor is he to whom another man commits by will the execution of that, his last will and testament, 503 all persons who may make wills may be executors ; also femes covert and... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1877 - 640 pages
...revocation of a prior will. We are next to consider what is an' executor, and what an administrator, and how they are both to be appointed. An. executor...another man commits by will the execution of that his last will and testament. And all persons are capable of being executors, that are capable of making... | |
| Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - Law - 1880 - 824 pages
...be made (I) ; but it is capable of being made either by express words or by a clear implication (m). An executor is he to whom another man commits by will the execution of his last will and testament. And all persons are capable of being executors that are capable of making... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1885 - 626 pages
...prior will. A will should appoint an executor. What then is an executor, and what an administrator ? An executor is he to whom another man commits by will the execution of his last will and testament. And all persons are capable of being executors, that are capable of making... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 850 pages
...whom another man commits by will tho execution of that his last will and testainent.f And all persons are capable of being executors, that are capable of making wills, and many others besides ; as feme-coverts, J and infants : nay, even infanta unborn, or in vcntre so, mere, may be... | |
| John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...revocation of his former will which he mad* in his state of celibacy. 27. What is an executor?— 503. An executor is he to whom another man commits, by will; the execution of that his last will and testament. 28. Who are capable of being executors ? — 503. All persons are capable... | |
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