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to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "...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.

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.

if such person is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative: Provided, That if the total award is not over $500 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates ; ;

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.

When it is not sufficient, the programmer may be able to use the procedural reading of programs and knowledge of the behaviour of the program executor to obtain greater efficiency.

The Mayor is the executor of the determinations of the City Council and the person directly in charge of the public municipal administration.

* unsolemn will-will in which the executor is unnamed

It is a good idea that the testator give his executor the power to pay debts, taxes, and administration expenses ( probate, etc .).

( When Roger knew he was dying, though, he did nothing to rewrite his will, which means that his literary executor is a family member from whom he was somewhat estranged -- not someone who would have kept Roger's wishes paramount.

He is best known as the executor of the estate of Oscar Wilde, to whom he had been a lifelong friend.

His main contribution to literature lies in his work as Wilde's executor, and as Wilde's friend in reading Wilde's texts and, if Ross is to be believed, frequently suggesting changes and improvements.

In 2007, after Frame's death, The New Zealand Medical Journal published an article by a medical specialist who proposed that Frame may have registered on what is referred to as the autistic spectrum, a suggestion that was disputed by the author's literary executor.

Charles Amirkhanian, director of the Other Minds festival is the executor of the Antheil estate.

This was repeated in good faith by his literary executor George Steevens, but the tale is now thought " suspicious ".

Horatio Brown, Symonds's biographer and literary executor, skipped the Harrow years, saying merely " The autobiography of the Harrow period is not copious ".

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.

A description of him is to be found in the letters of his curate and executor, John Jones, to Dr Thomas Birch ( in Brit.

On one side is the National Library of Israel, which believes that Brod passed the papers to Esther as an executor of his actual intent to have the papers donated to the institution.

There was no birthright attaching to the position of eldest son, but he usually acted as executor and, after considering what each had already received, equalized the shares.

The remedy is usually to have an executor act in an arbitrary fashion and have no financial interest in how the estate will be divided up.

If the decedent died with a will, the will usually names an executor ( personal representative ), a person tasked with carrying out the instructions laid out in the will.

These include checking and deposit services, overdrafts, term loans, mortgages, international asset financing, leasing, installment credit, debt financing, foreign exchange facilities, interest and exchange rate hedging instruments, executor and trustee services.

An executorial trustee is someone who is appointed to be an executor ( the person who carries out the directions set forth in a will ) and also be a trustee of an estate after the executors duties have been completed.

See also: inheritance, executor, trustee,

The problem arises in client-attorney, probate executor, bankruptcy trustee, and other such relationships.

At one time the executor was entitled to the residue in default of a residuary legatee, but the Executors Act 1830 made him in such an event trustee for the next of kin.

He is co-literary executor with Michael Holroyd of Lytton Strachey's estate, trustee of the Strachey Trust, Jane Grigson Trust, and co-chair with Claudia Roden of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

He appointed his wife, Dawn Colston, as executor and trustee of his will, however Dawn died eleven months later, before she had disposed of her husband's will.

In law, misappropriation is the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate or by any person with a responsibility to care for and protect another's assets ( a fiduciary duty ).