Sc. [f. EXECUT(O)R + -Y3.] a. = EXECUTORSHIP. b. ‘The general name given to the moveable estate and effects of a defunct’ (W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., 1861).
1655. in Z. Boyd’s Zion’s Flowers (1855), App. 28/2. Accompt of Mr. Zachary Boid’s Executry and Movable Goods.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 428. Executry, though it be sometimes said to carry a certain degree of representation of the deceased, is properly an office.
1843. Tait’s Mag., X. 314. Having performed the last sad offices of friendship … we shared their executry among the survivors.
1885. Law Rep. 10 App. Cases 457. Our said Lords … should remove the defenders from their said office of trust and executry.
