Examples from literature

• And of course I desire you to be the executor. 
• He says he must have the support of the other executor. 
• In the first place, Robert Palmer's will distinctly stated that everything was left to the judgment of the executors. 
• The next day, however, the will was actually drawn up, executed, and placed in my cousin's hands, he being the sole executor. 
• When I came to be executor, there was nearly nothing to guide me as to the amount of my father's property,—and I certainly did not succeed in realising all that he was supposed to have acquired.