What's the difference between executor and will?

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.

Will


Definition:

  • (v.) The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.
  • (v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.
  • (v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.
  • (v.) Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.
  • (v.) That which is strongly wished or desired.
  • (v.) Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose, or determine.
  • (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1.
  • (adv.) To wish; to desire; to incline to have.
  • (adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish, or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, "You will go," or "He will go," describes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.
  • (v. i.) To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire.
  • (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.
  • (n.) To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order.
  • (n.) To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch.
  • (v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.

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