executory

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzɛk.jʊ.tə.ɹi/, /ɪɡˈzɛk.jʊ.tɹi/

Adjective

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executory (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to administration or execution.
    • 2005, Steven Emanuel, Property, page 215:
      An executory interest is a future interest in a grantee which will not automatically become possessory and which follows a prior estate which will not terminate inevitably.
  2. (law) Yet to be completed; not fully executed, performed or carried out; lacking in execution, unfulfilled; so, yet to take effect.

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