Angielskie ekwiwalenty teminu "wykonawca testamentu"

Abstract

This paper constitutes a preliminary study aiming at assessing English equivalents of the Polish term “wykonawca testamentu” suggested in most popular bilingual specialist dictionaries. The English equivalents discussed include: “executor of a will”, “executor of testament” and “executor nominate”. In order to conduct a thorough assessment of the suggested equivalents, the definitions of the Polish term and their English equivalents presented in monolingual legal dictionaries of British law have been analysed. Moreover, the study aims to verify whether or not the suggested equivalents occur in the texts of the British sources of law and jurisprudence. Finally, translation techniques applied while forming English equivalents under discussion are identified.