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EXECUTE

To finish, accomplish, make complete, fulfill. To perform; obey the injunctions of.To make; as to execute a deed, which includes signing, sealing, and delivery.To perform; carry out according to its terms ;

EXECUTED

Completed; carried into full effect; already (lone or performed ; takingeffect immediately; now in existence or in possession; conveying an immediate right orpossession. The opposite of executory.

EXECUTIO

Lat. The doing or following up of a thing; the doing a thing completelyor thoroughly; management or administration.In old practice. Execution; the final process in an action.

EXECUTION

The completion, fulfillment, or perfecting of anything, or carrying it into operation and effect. The signing, sealing, and delivery of a deed. The signing and publication of a will. The performance of

EXECUTIONE JUDICII

A writ directed to the judge of an inferior court to doexecution upon a judgment therein, or to return some reasonable cause wherefore hedelays the execution. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 20.

EXECUTIONER

The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to their sentence; a hangman.

EXECUTIVE

As distinguished from the legislative and judicial departments of government,the executive department is that which is charged with the detail of carrying the laws into effect and securing their due observance. The

EXECUTOR

A person appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his will, and to dispose of the property according to his testamentary provisions after his decease. Scott v.

EXECUTORY

That which is yet to be executed or performed; that which remains tobe carried into operation or effect; incomplete ; depending upon a future performanceor event. The opposite of executed.

EXECUTRESS

A female executor. Hardr. 165, 473. See EXECUTRIX.

EXECUTRIX

A woman who has been appointed by will to execute such will or testament.

EXECUTRY

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.

EXEMPLI GRATIA

For the purpose of example, or for instance. Often abbreviated “ex. gr.” or “e. g.”

EXEMPLIFICATION

An official transcript of a document from public records. made In form to be used as evidence, aud authenticated as a true copy.

EXEMPLUM

In the civil law. Copy; a written authorized copy. This word is also used in the modern sense of “example,”

EXEMPTION

Freedom from a general duty or service; immunity from a generalburden, tax, or charge. Green v. State, 59 Md. 128, 43 Am. Rep. 542; Koenig v. RailroadCo., 3 Neb. 3S0; Long v.

EXEMPTS

Persons who are not bound by law, but excused from the performance of duties imposed upon others.

EXENNIUM

In old English law. A gift; a new year’s gift. Cowell.

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