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Executory   Listen
adjective
Executory  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. "The official and executory duties of government."
2.
(Law) Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract.





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"Executory" Quotes from Famous Books



... nations there is a recognized form of proceeding by which a judgment of a foreign court, fairly rendered after giving a proper opportunity to the defendant for a hearing, can be enforced by process from a domestic tribunal. This is styled making the foreign judgment executory. The English common law did not recognize such a right, and gave no remedy to one desiring to enforce a foreign judgment, except that of bringing a fresh suit. In like manner, whoever has recovered a judgment against an inhabitant of any State, in a court held outside of that State, can ...
— The American Judiciary • Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD


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