Aristotle named chief executor his student Antipater and left a will in which he asked to be buried next to his wife.

Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.

Coleman's final will, signed in 2005, names Gray as executor, and awards his entire estate to her.

Lovecraft had specified that the young R. H. Barlow would serve as executor of his literary estate, but these instructions had not been incorporated into his will.

In 2007, a 165-minute biopic of Brando, Brando: The Documentary, produced by Mike Medavoy ( the executor of Brando's will ) for Turner Classic Movies, was released.

* Emily Schotten ( 1790 – 1861 ), who married William W. Ellsworth, named by Webster as an executor of his will.

Francesca married Francescuolo da Brossano ( who was later named executor of Petrarch's will ) that same year.

* Contracts by the executor of a will to pay a debt of the estate with his own money.

The executor of the will is ( usually ) the trustee, and the children are the beneficiaries.

Both living trusts and wills can also be used to plan for unforeseen circumstances such as incapacity or disability, by giving discretionary powers to the trustee or executor of the will.

Several safety provisions of probate law in the U. S. protect the decedent's assets from mismanagement, loss, and embezzlement, such as the requirement that the executor of the will be bonded, the real property insured, the executor ’ s sale of real estate monitored, and itemized accountings filed with the court during and at the end of probate administration.

CADIVI, the government body which administers currency exchange, will continue as the only administrator of the foreign currencies and executor of this devaluation.

He becomes an executor of Arcadius ' will and is entrusted with the care of the young Theodosius II until he comes of age.

To that end, Shaw placed in his will provisions instructing his executor to organize a world-wide competition to design an improved English alphabet.

Fatah announces its own operations under this name so that Fatah will not appear as the direct executor of the operation.

He died on 21 April 1509, having designated his mother chief executor of his will.

* One or more beneficiaries ( devisees, legatees ) must generally be clearly stated in the text, but some jurisdictions allow a valid will that merely revokes a previous will, revokes a disposition in a previous will, or names an executor.

After the testator has died, a probate proceeding may be initiated in court to determine the validity of the will or wills that the testator may have created, i. e., which will satisfy the legal requirements, and to appoint an executor.

In most cases, the testator will nominate an executor / PR in the will unless that person is unable or unwilling to serve.

An executor of Henry VIII's will and the recipient of valuable grants of land, Herbert was a prominent and powerful personage during the reign of Edward VI, both the protector Somerset and his rival, John Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, angling for his support.

Hellman was a long-time friend of author Dorothy Parker and served as her literary executor after her death in 1967.

At Oxford his tutor was Richard Hooker, author of the Ecclesiastical Polity, whose lifelong friend and executor Sandys became.

The film's distributor, New Line Cinema, was not licensed to use the poem as it is a separate work from The Lord of the Rings and Christopher Tolkien, son of the author and his literary executor, refused to license it as he steadfastly refused to have anything to do with the movies.

Julian ( or Jules ) Fontana ( 31 July 181023 December 1869 ) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Frédéric Chopin.

But he is remembered chiefly as the close friend and literary executor of Edward Gibbon ( author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ), whose Memoirs and other miscellaneous works he subsequently edited and published.

They pass to the author's heirs or executor on the author's death, but may not be otherwise transferred or sold under any circumstances, by either the author or his legal successors.

Brooke fell heavily in love several times with both men and women, although his bisexuality was edited out of his life by his first literary executor.

After his death, Norton served as his literary executor and published several collections of Lowell's works and his letters.

On Pushkin's early death in 1837, Zhukovsky stepped in as his literary executor, not only rescuing his work from a hostile censorship ( including several unpublished masterpieces ), but also diligently collecting and preparing it for publication.

Williams was Dick's literary executor for several years after Dick's death and used that position to get several of the author's previously unpublished neorealist novels into print.

Ken's poetical works were published in collected form in four volumes by W Hawkins, his relative and executor, in 1721 ; his prose works were issued in 1838 in one volume, under the editorship of J. T.

The PAU joined the project and now it is its only manager and executor, but the enterprise is still financed by the Lanckoroński Foundation ( three volumes have appeared ).

His other plays and poetry ( e. g. Amyntor and Theodora ), popular at the time, are largely forgotten ( see Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets ), but he was a significant enough figure to be chosen by Bolingbroke as his literary executor.

Interest in Scottish Gaelic culture greatly increased during the onset of the Romantic period in the late 18th century, with James Macpherson's Ossian achieving international fame, along with the novels of Sir Walter Scott and the poetry and song lyrics of the London-based Irishman Thomas Moore, Byron's friend and executor.

If the executor is merely following a solution ( e. g. sketch, script or instructions ) provided by another designer ( such as an art director ), then the executor is not usually considered the designer.

They appear in his books The Hobbit ( 1937 ), The Lord of the Rings ( 1954 – 55 ), and the posthumously published The Silmarillion ( 1977 ), Unfinished Tales ( 1980 ), and The History of Middle-earth series ( 1983 – 96 ), the last three edited by his son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien.

" Other active executors were his cousin and executor, and chief mourner at the funeral, Henry Harpur IV ( benefactor of Westminster – now Chelsea & Westminster – Hospital ), Revd.

The first will, signed and dated February 14, 1988, transferred power over all Schneerson ’ s property and personal effects to Agudas Chasidei Chabad ( AGUCH ) ( directed by Krinsky ), naming Krinsky as sole executor.

As a scholar he is best known for his edition of the Greek New Testament ( 1856 – 1860 ), and the Old Testament ( 1864 – 1870 ), with commentaries ; but his writings were many in number, and included a volume of devotional verse, The Holy Year ( 1862 ), Church History up to A. D. 451 ( 1881 – 1883 ), and Memoirs of his uncle, William Wordsworth ( 1851 ), to whom he was literary executor.

Outside the home, Gildersleeve's closest association was with the cantankerous estate executor Judge Horace Hooker ( Earle Ross ), with whom he had many battles during the first few broadcast seasons.

However, statutes can restrict removal if not purely executive ( Humphrey ’ s executor ), but can't restrict removal of purely executive officer ( Myers v. United States, 272 U. S. 52 ( 1926 )).

* Tori ( martial arts ), the executor of a technique in partnered martial arts practice

Following Edwardes's death, he submitted to Edwardes ' executor, Robert Evett, a text that Curzon had rejected, The Maid of the Mountains ( 1917 ; revived in 1920 ), which became one of the phenomenally successful wartime shows in London, establishing itself as a classic of the British musical stage.

* “ Im Windgesträuch ” ( In the windy wilderness ), poems from Bobrowski's literary executor, 1970

A probate also officially appoints the executor ( or personal representative ), generally named in the will, as having legal power to dispose of the testator's assets in the manner specified in the will.