executory
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English
Etymology
From Middle English executory, from Latin execūtōrius. By surface analysis, execute + -ory.
Pronunciation
Adjective
executory (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to administration or execution.
- 2005, Steven Emanuel, Property, page 215:
- An executory interest is a future interest in a grantee which will not automatically become possessory and which follows a prior estate which will not terminate inevitably.
- (law) Yet to be completed; not fully executed, performed or carried out; lacking in execution, unfulfilled; so, yet to take effect.
Derived terms
References
- ^ “executory, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
