executorshipn.
/ɛkˈsɛkjʊtəʃɪp/ The office or duty of an executor.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > management or disposal of estate > one who > position of
executorship1530
secutorship?1553
administratorship1590
1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 90 Thomas Johns ought no peny to Falowfyld..but by way of executor~shyp.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 Sept. (1970) II. 179 If she will not be ruled, I shall fling up my Executorship.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xxxi. 286 He went to town this morning on the affairs of his executorship.
1823 C. Lamb South-sea House in Elia 10 He made the best executor in the world: he was plagued with incessant executorships accordingly.
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