executry Sc.
(ɛkˈsɛkjʊtrɪ)
[f. executor + -y3.]
a. = executorship. b. ‘The general name given to the moveable estate and effects of a defunct’ (W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 1861).
| 1655 in Z. Boyd's Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 28/2 Accompt of Mr. Zachary Boid's Executry and Movable Goods. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 428 Executry, though it be sometimes said to carry a certain degree of representation of the deceased, is properly an office. 1843 Tait's Mag. X. 314 Having performed the last sad offices of friendship..we shared their executry among the survivors. 1885 Law Rep. 10 App. Cases 457 Our said Lords..should remove the defenders from their said office of trust and executry. |