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Debtor Executor

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Debtor-Executor. At law, if a testator appoints his debtor executor, the debt is released. In equity, however, the executor is accountable for the amount of his debt, as assets of the testator. See Freakley v. Fox, 9 B. & C. 134; Re Hyslop, (1894) 3 Ch 522; and see Wms. On Executors, 12th Edn., p. 858.

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