Literary notes about executor (AI summary)
The term "executor" in literature has been employed to denote a figure endowed with considerable authority and responsibility, often bridging the legal, personal, and sometimes even symbolic realms of legacy management. In some texts, it is used in its strict legal sense as the individual charged with executing the directives of a will or estate (e.g., [1], [2]), while in others it extends to a broader role, encompassing guardianship of both material and intellectual inheritances (as seen with literary executors in [3] and [4]). Additionally, authors like Dickens and Irving use the term to underscore not only the legal validity but also the emotional or social connection between the deceased and the executor, thereby highlighting themes of trust, duty, and personal legacy (e.g., [5], [6], [7]). Even in more formal or administrative contexts, as in [8] and historical accounts like [9], the term retains its gravitas, making "executor" a multifaceted term that encapsulates both the rigor of legal obligations and the intimacy of personal relationships.
- Did Edmond make you his heir?” “No, merely his testamentary executor.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - I speak now not as a medical man but as a trustee and executor of Sir Charles’s will.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - CAREW BY THE AUTHOR’S LITERARY EXECUTOR CONTENTS PAGE
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde - Mr. S. T. Pickard, Whittier's literary executor, kindly sent the original of another letter from Miss Keller to Whittier.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens - Hans Van Ripper, as executor of his estate, examined the bundle which contained all his worldly effects.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving - Hans Van Ripper as executor of his estate, examined the bundle which contained all his worldly effects.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving - For terms of sale apply to the executor and executrix."
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - That Antipater shall be the general and universal executor.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
