Of or pertaining to administration or execution. / (law) Yet to be completed; not fully executed, performed or carried out; lacking in execution, unfulfilled; so, yet to take effect.

Of or relating to an executive (branch of government etc.). / Of or relating to an executor.

(law) A third-party interest in an estate in land created by the conditions of a grant wherein the grantor gives the land to a second party, but with said land going to a third party upon the occurrence of a condition; an interest created subject to a fee simple subject to executory interest.

plural of executory interest

(law) Someone appointed to be an executor (the person who carries out the directions set forth in a will) and also be a trustee of an estate after the executor's duties have been completed.

plural of executorial trustee

(law) An interest in an estate in land created by the conditions of a grant wherein the grantor cuts short the grantor's own interest in the property in favor of the grantee, contingent upon the occurrence of a specific condition.

plural of springing executory interest

(law) A third party interest in an estate in land created by the conditions of a grant wherein the grantor gives the land to a second party, but with the occurrence of a condition divesting the second party of the land in favor of the third party.

plural of shifting executory interest