executory consideration

Law : A consideration to be executed at some future time. [EXECUTED-CONSIDERATION.] executory-contract, s . Law : A contract to be carried out at some subse quent time. [EXECUTED-CONTRACT.] executory-devise, s. IMG:content-1245.png:[blocks in formation] "A female at seventeen may be an executrix."- Black stone: Comment., bk. i., ch. 17. *ěx-e'de, v . t . [Lat. exedo: ex out, away, and edo to eat.] To eat away, to corrode. "The ancient piece of money is not the least blurred or exeded."-Monthly Review, January 1752, p. 69. ěx-ě-dra, ex-he-dra, s. [Lat. exedra, from Gr. exedra, from ex = out, without, and hedra = a seat; Fr. exédre.] I. Antiq .: The portico of the Grecian palæstr a, office or duty. IMG:content-1246.png:[blocks in formation] II. Law : A person appointed by a testator to carry out the provisions of his will. "An executor is he to whom another man commits by the learned were held. So called from its containing a number of seats, generally open, like the pastas or vestibule of a Greek house; an a embly-room or hall for conversation. II. Architecture : 1. A niche projecting did great execution. "Brave Macbeth, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution , Carved out his pa age." Shakesp.: Macbeth, i. 2. *5. The act of sacking a town. II. Technically: 1. Art : That mode by which a painter, sculptor, ., produces his paintings, sculptures, ., sometimes termed handling, penciling, ., and by which, as much as by general style, his genuine works may be known; the right mechanical use of And all persons are capable of being executors , that are of a building; a porch capable of making wills, and many others besides; as feme or chapel projecting coverts, and infants. This appointment of an executor is from a large building. e ential to the making of a will. If the testator does not 2. A rece of a build name executors, or names incapable persons, or the ing. executors named refused to act; in any of these cases the court grants administration oum test a men to annexo to some other person; and then the duty of the administrator is very little different from that of an executor ."- Black . stone: Comment., bk. ii., ch. 28. ex-ec-u-tör-I-al, *ex-ec-u-tor-i-all, a . & 8. [Eng. executory; -al . ]