Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

EXECUTRY, n. Sc. law. Also executory.

†1. The office of an executor.Sc. 1754 Erskine Principles iii. ix. 17:
Executory, being an office, is not descendible to heirs.Sc. 1885 Law Reports 10 App. Cases 457:
Our said Lords . . . should remove the defenders from their said office of trust and executry.

2. A general or comprehensive name given to the whole moveable property of a deceased person (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 33). Also used attrib. in executry estate, id. (Abd.²⁷ 1950).Sc. 1843 Tait's Mag. X. 314:
Having performed the last sad offices of friendship . . . we shared their executry among the survivors.Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 436:
Executry . . . the general name given to the whole moveable estate and effects of a defunct, . . . the proper subject of the executor's administration. It includes not only what belongs to the executor by his office, or succession, but all that belongs to the defunct's relict, children, or nearest of kin, legatees, and creditors.