executorialadj.n.
/ɛkˌsɛkjuːˈtɔːrɪəl/ A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to an executor.
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1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xciii. 346 Excuse me, Sir, for the sake of my executorial duty and promise.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 508 Letters of administration..whereby an executorial power to collect and administer..is vested in him.
1850 G. P. R. James Old Oak Chest I. 49 Two lawyers were also there, arranging the executorial affairs.
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys lx His legal and executorial bag.
b. Scots Law. Pertaining to the execution of a warrant, etc.
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1757 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) I. i. iii. 33 In this office, are sealed..letters of executorial diligence.
c. Ecclesiastical Law. executorial letters (medieval Latin litteræ executoriæ or executoriales): a mandate issued by the Pope requiring the collation of a specified clergyman to a benefice.
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1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio I. 68 I received..the executorial letters against Cardinal Coscia.
Scots Law. ‘Any legal authority employed for executing a decree or sentence of court’ (Jamieson). Obsolete.
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1525 Queen Margaret of Scotl. Let. (modernized text) in M. A. E. Wood Lett. Royal & Illustrious Ladies (1846) I. 371 In like manner we have superseded executorials and sharp process which we have on him.
1640 Act 34 Chas. I (1870) V. 287 The estates of parliament..ordeanes þe lordis of Sessione to grant lettiris and other executoriellis againest the excommunicat prelates.
1728 in Mem. Domestica (1889) 12 Letters of horning and all other executorials may pass hereupon.
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