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Terms Used In Texas Estates Code 53.001

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Judge: means the presiding judge of any court having original jurisdiction over probate proceedings, regardless of whether the court is:
    (1) a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;
    (2) a court created by statute and authorized to exercise probate jurisdiction; or
    (3) a district court exercising probate jurisdiction in a contested matter. See Texas Estates Code 22.019

A judge may enforce the judge’s lawful orders against an executor or administrator by attachment and confinement. Unless this title expressly provides otherwise, the term of confinement for any one offense under this section may not exceed three days.