executory
[ig-zek-yuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
- executive.
- Law. to be performed or executed.
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Origin of executory
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Another class of contracts are called executed and executory.
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A contract may be executed as to one party and executory as to the other.
Another classification is into executed and executory contracts.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the LaymanAlbert Sidney Bolles
The first is called an executory, the other an executed, sale.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the LaymanAlbert Sidney Bolles
The executory brief was not identical with the Bull of Deposition.
The Divorce of Catherine of AragonJ.A. Froude
executory
- (of a law, agreement, etc) coming into operation at a future date; not yet effectivean executory contract
- executive; administrative
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