executory
Americanadjective
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(of a law, agreement, etc) coming into operation at a future date; not yet effective
an executory contract
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executive; administrative
Etymology
Origin of executory
1400–50; late Middle English executorie operative, being in effect < Late Latin ex ( s ) ecūtōrius executive. See execute, -tory 1
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One columnist JC Punongbayan tweeted the order was "not immediate and executory", adding that it would be "business as usual".
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2022
Every sort of legislature, judicial, or executory power, are its creatures.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
An executory contract is one that is to be completed.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
An unpaid promissory note is an executory contract, when paid it becomes an executed one.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
Historically it is equally without basis, for the intention of the obligation of contracts clause, as the evidence amply shows, was to protect private executory contracts, and especially contracts of debt.
From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Edward Samuel Corwin
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