executed trust

Law: A trust in which no act further than one which has been done already is requisite to give effect to the trust; as, when an estate is conveyed to the use of A and his heirs, with a simple declaration of the trust for B and his heirs. (Wharton.) executed-use, s . Law : The first use in a conveyance upon which the Statute of Uses operated by bringing the po e ion to it, the legal estate consisting of use and po e ion combined. ( Wharton .) [USE, Law .] ěx-ě-cut-er, s. [Eng. execut ( e ); -er .] 1. One who executes or performs anything. 2. An executor (q. v.). "Let's choose executers , and talk of wills: And yet not so: for what can we bequeath?" Shakesp.: Richard II., iii. 2. In this sense accented on second syllable, the word being thus syllabicated: ex - ec -u- ter . *3. An executioner.