Legal glossary
“executor”
Defined in 3 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Gift-tax Act, 1958 · s. 2
(x) "executor" means an executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased person; 8[(xi) the expressions "firm", "partner" and "partnership" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them under section 2 of the Income-tax Act;]
Read section 2The Indian Succession Act, 1925 · s. 2
(c) "executor" means a person to whom the execution of the last Will of a deceased person is, by the testator's appointment, confided; 4 [(cc) "India" means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir;]
Read section 2The Estate Duty Act 1953, 34 of 1953, (Rep., Act 20 of 2000) · s. 2 · Repealed or not in force
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