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EXECUTRY
Definition and Citations:
In Scotch law. The movable estate of a person dying, which goes to hisnearest of kin. So called as falling under the distribution of an executor. Bell.Exempla illustrant non restringunt legem. Co. Litt. 240. Examples illustrate, but donot restrain, the law.