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Debtee-Executor

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Equitable executor

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De son tort, executor

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Coexecutor

A joint executor

Administrator

a person appointed by competent authority to administer the estate of a deceased person when there is no executor. [Indian Succession Act (39 of 1925) s. 2(a)] --he to whom the property of a person dying intestate,

Disclaimer

estate devised, and after such disclaimer has no interest in the estate. An heir-at-law could not disclaim. An executor may, before probate, 'disclaim,' or as it is more properly called, 'renounce,' the executorship, and the executor of

administrator

person who has died without leaving a valid will or leaving a will that does not name an executor able or willing to perform see also administratrix letters of administration at letter compare executor, personal representative administrator

Emblements

produced by the labour of the cultivator. They are deemed personal property, and pass as such to the executor or administrator of the occu-pier, whether he were the owner in fee, or for life, or for years,

Renounce

Renounce, to give up a right. An executor who declines to take probate of the will of his testator is said to 'renounce' probate. Where any

Confirmation

Co. Litt. 295 b. Confirmation in Scotland is the ratification by a competent Court of an appointment of executors, and confers a title to uplift, administer, and dispose of the personal estate of the deceased. When the

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