executrix
An executor must first obtain the most recent version of the will.
His executors were faced with a substantial inheritance tax bill.
In his will, he instructed his executors to find deserving beneficiaries for his estate.
The executor files a request asking the court to admit the will to probate.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inheriting & bequeathing
assign
beneficiary
bequeath
bequest
cadger
co-executor
heir
heir apparent
heiress
heirless
heirloom
inherit
inheritance
legacy
patrimony
pond life
pond scum
primogeniture
probate
settle

Examples from literature

And of course I desire you to be the executor. 
He says he must have the support of the other executor. 
In the first place, Robert Palmer's will distinctly stated that everything was left to the judgment of the executors. 
The next day, however, the will was actually drawn up, executed, and placed in my cousin's hands, he being the sole executor. 
When I came to be executor, there was nearly nothing to guide me as to the amount of my father's property,—and I certainly did not succeed in realising all that he was supposed to have acquired. 

executor | American Dictionary

executor
noun[ C ]
 lawus/ɪɡˈzek·jə·t̬ər/
a person who deals with the wishes expressed in a will (= formal statement of what will happen to a dead person’s money and property)

executor | Business English

executor
noun[ C ]
 LAWuk /ɪɡˈzekjʊtər/ us /-jəṱɚ/
someone who makes sure that things are done according to a dead person's will (= a document in which someone says who should have their money or property after they die):
She died recently and I am an executor of her will.

Examples of executor

executor
Where parents had died, other kin were usually called upon to act as guardians and executors in the paying out of inheritance portions.
Most indulgences were clearly obtained after death, presumably mainly by widows, widowers and executors.
The clan head makes all important decisions in consultation with adult men and is the chief executor of these decisions.
The will had the force of a deed and no executor was needed to administer the land.
The presence or absence of sons seems to have had relatively little influence on men's choice of executor.
Swedish wills hardly ever mention executors, nor does the legal code.
Situated planning systems may need to communicate rationale with human or machine task assigners or plan executors.
The figure of the president was given little room to manoeuvre, becoming in essence the mere ' executor ' of congress's policies.
This procedure is continued till the exploration executor tells the robot that there is no node left to explore.
The absence of executors may reflect the fact that the task of dividing the property was simpler than in some other jurisdictions.
Others were named as executors of wills or were specified as the ' person to contact ' on medical notes or in case of emergency.
So if not by the executors, then by whom was the inscription created?
For instance, a plan executor may have discovered new information that disallowed the performance of some action (jnode) in the plan.
But the historical essay, as his executors fully appreciated, was his natural art form.
These included disability from suing in civil courts, from acting as executors of wills and from making a will.
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