Executor

An individual or trust institution nominated in a will and appointed by a court to settle the estate of a deceased person.

Executor/Executrix

A person who administers the estate of a deceased person. The executor (if male) or executrix (if female) is responsible for gathering all of the decedent's assets and giving them to the appropriate beneficiaries. He/she is often a family member or lawyer who is either appointed in the decedent's will or by a court. The executor/executrix has a fiduciary responsibility to act on behalf of the decedent and to fulfill, as closely as possible, the wishes set forth in the will. Persons under 18 and convicted felons cannot serve as executors.

executor

One named in a will to fulfill the wishes of a decedent regarding the disposition of assets. Today, the word refers to both males and females serving in that capacity. At one time, executor referred only to males,and the female was called an executrix.

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(4) Even today there are no regulations guiding the preparation of trust and executorship accounts in Britain.

Accounting on english landed estates during the agricultural revolution--a textbook perspective

(1961), "Executorship Reporting--Some Historical Notes," Accounting Review, Vol.

Contributions of Joseph Hardcastle to accounting theory

Under Leonard's executorship, Muirpace was 'riddled with fraud', he said.

Dealer with racing passion jailed over pounds 32m swindle

Michael Millgate has recently seen editors in just such a 'quasi-executorial capacity', arguing that they may 'be said to have self-appointed themselves to positions of supplementary literary executorship, and to have assumed in so doing some portion of the moral burdens more directly shouldered by those specifically named to such positions under the terms of the author's will'.(58) Just as executors of actual legal testaments may in various ways, and for various motives, depart from the exact implementation of a testator's wishes (as, most dramatically, in the destruction or preservation of biographical material), so editors may not, for example, choose for their copy-text the latest revised text, preferred (and in this sense 'bequeathed') by an author:

'The Testament of the Buck' and the sociology of the text

The professional examinations tested candidates in book-keeping and accounts; auditing; the adjustment of partnership and executorship accounts; the rights and duties of liquidators, trustees, and receivers; the principles of the law of bankruptcy; the principles of the law relating to joint stock companies; the principles of mercantile law; and the principles of the law of arbitration and awards [ICAEW, 1882, p.

Constructing the 'well qualified' chartered accountant in England and Wales

The first known example of DEB applied to estate accounts are those of the Francis Willughby Executorship, 1672-1682 [Lee, 1981].

The roots of modern capitalism: a Marxist accounting history of the origins and consequences of capitalist landlords in England

Rebecca said STEP was a worldwide professional body for lawyers, accountants and tax advisers specialising in trusts and estates, executorships, administration and related taxes.

Qualification a STEP up for Rebecca