What's the difference between executor and fiduciary?

Executor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
  • (n.) An executioner.
  • (n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "In other cases, family members have identified members of the police as the executors of these murders, killing women as retaliation for gang attacks on police officers.
  • (2) Leonie Gombrich, his granddaughter and literary executor, described his change of heart when we met last week in New York.
  • (3) Anthea Grant died earlier this year, and named her sons Patrick and Josh as the executors of her will.
  • (4) الرقة تذبح بصمت (@Raqqa_SL) 1- #Raqqa Leena Al-Qasem (35 years) executor was her son Ali Saqr (born 1995) a member of #ISIS .
  • (5) "When Sylvia died Ted knew that Olwyn hated her and he appointed her as the sole executor for her work.
  • (6) So it's unsurprising that, half a century on, the arguments about her burn with ever-greater fervour, as proven by the extraordinary battle conducted last week in the Guardian's books section between Plath's friend Elizabeth Sigmund and a characteristically combative Olwyn Hughes , Ted Hughes's sister and the literary executor of Plath's estate.
  • (7) It is the executor's responsibility to deal with the estate of the person who died; that is, everything they owned.
  • (8) For a calm executor of a gameplan and a formidably accurate goal-kicker, there is a point where Farrell and his senses part company, usually when defeat or a setback is looming and he cannot control his frustration.
  • (9) Savile had appointed National Westminster bank as executor of his will.
  • (10) When Spark died in Italy in 2006, Jardine became her heir and literary executor.
  • (11) As a result, there was indifference on the part of enterprises, indifference and inadequate organization of occupational health services as executors of the specific health care measures, and indulgence on the part of the court, inspecting services and other competent bodies.
  • (12) In her art, Fay, who is also the joint executor with her sister Bea, of Ballard's literary estate , is echoing the work of her father, whose protagonists are often engaged in a desperate search for meaning following some catastrophic event, and who have to adapt to a harsh new environment.
  • (13) Upon this region, proposed as the PS FINAL COMMON REGION, conveges rostral and caudal information making it the executor of all PS phenomena.
  • (14) The community outreach program (COP) is based at a large southern university, where the nursing care center serves as executor of the project.
  • (15) He also left a large unpaid tax bill and such a mess of rights issues around the use of his beats – many given out freely on CDs to friends before his death – that the executor of his estate (also his accountant) Arty Erk, had to take out an ad in Billboard in April 2008 requesting that people stop using his client's work.
  • (16) Nine months later the executor of the estate filed a $2 million malpractice suit against the defendant doctor and the defendant hospital for wrongful death.
  • (17) It was shown that only calmodulin and troponin C but not parvalbumin bind calcium ions with concomitant formation of hydrophobic sites that are responsible for interaction with the "executor enzymes".
  • (18) Also, the information mechanisms which link planners, executors and the 'clients', were examined.
  • (19) The same, stifling July heat does not reach the swanky air-conditioned rooms where the advocates and executors of India’s new industrial corridors are based.
  • (20) Three executors will now be tasked with winding up the estate and carrying out Mandela's wishes: Moseneke, George Bizos, a lawyer and friend of Mandela for 65 years, and Themba Sangoni, the chief judge in Eastern Cape province, where Mandela was born.

Fiduciary


Definition:

  • (n.) One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
  • (n.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the authors rightly point out, much of the blame for the failure of directors to act is their mistaken view that maximising shareholder value is a company’s legal obligation or director’s fiduciary responsibility.
  • (2) Pension funds, which have a fiduciary duty to make money, have no business owning any of these companies.
  • (3) At the same time, around half of total institutional assets ($45trn) under management now subscribe to responsible investing principles, and climate risk management now needs to become part of investors’ fiduciary duty.
  • (4) "Our political leaders seem alarmingly content to lurch from one near-crisis to the next, and it is our hope that this new framework helps encourage policymakers to meet their fiduciary responsibilities and come up with a bipartisan plan to fix the debt," she said.
  • (5) The Fifa spokesperson Delia Fischer told the Mail & Guardian: “As our statement already says, Safa instructed Fifa that the diaspora legacy programme should be administered and implemented directly by the president of Concacaf who at that time was deputy chairman of the finance committee and who should act as the fiduciary of the diaspora legacy programme fund of $10m.
  • (6) The authors propose a rebuttable presumption that sexual contact between an attorney and client was obtained through the attorney's exercise of undue influence and was therefore a breach of the attorney's fiduciary duties to the client.
  • (7) Given this, the question then becomes under what circumstances and conditions a simple internal conflict may escalate into the problem of divided loyalties or fiduciary ambiguities.
  • (8) He says the FCA and the Bank of England should include these aspects in fiduciary responsibility.
  • (9) The sole share in the new company was issued to Stephen Jones's company, Jirehouse Fiduciaries Nominees.
  • (10) The board of directors never questioned this purchase, which Hampton termed a failure of their fiduciary responsibilities," the cable said.
  • (11) In this way, the care of the cancer patient can become a truly fiduciary responsibility.
  • (12) To suggest that there is any reason to settle prior to the adjudication of the pending criminal cases is obscene and without regard to the fiduciary responsibility owed to the taxpaying citizens of the city,” Lt Gene Ryan said in a statement.
  • (13) In January 2009 the family's lawyer, Bashir Ghazialam, filed court papers alleging "breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud".
  • (14) Though insisting that interaction between them is two-way, not one-way, the author insisted that the relation is basically asymmetrical because of the physician's expertise in health matters, gained through training and experience, and his special fiduciary responsibility for the care of the sick.
  • (15) Shareholders give directors the power to run a company and a breach of that fiduciary duty is a reflection of a lapse in that honesty.
  • (16) Rethink what fiduciary responsibility means in this changing world.
  • (17) I have said before and I will say it again, if corporations continue to invest in new fossil fuel exploration, new fossil fuel exploitation they are really in breach of their fiduciary duty because the science is abundantly clear.
  • (18) The Article suggests that the supremacy of self-medication is consistent with competition policy, the medical profession's fiduciary duty to clients, reduced medical costs and improved health.
  • (19) Asked about the importance of a fiduciary responsibility, Simon Morris of law firm CMS Cameron McKenna said: "A fiduciary duty is about honesty.
  • (20) After discussing how physicians express this ideal in practice, Moline suggests that it is possible in almost any occupation to express the spirit of the paradigm professional by putting the good of the weaker party over one's own interest, maintaining standards of strict confidentiality regarding personal information, and treating one's working relationships with others as fiduciary.

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