Execution : (noun)
1: putting a condemned person to death [syn: executing, capital
punishment, death penalty]
2: the act of performing; of doing something successfully;
using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing
it; "they criticised his performance as mayor";
"experience generally improves performance" [syn: performance,
carrying out, carrying into action]
3: (computer science) the process of carrying out an
instruction by a computer [syn: instruction execution]
4: (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a
contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and
delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and
enforceable [syn: execution of instrument]
5: a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment
that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a
sheriff to carry it out [syn: writ of execution]
6: the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order;
"the agency was created for the implementation of the
policy" [syn: implementation, carrying out]
7: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human
being [syn: murder, slaying]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Execution : \Ex`e*cu"tion\, n. [F. ex['e]cution, L. executio,
exsecutio.]
1. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to
completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as,
the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
The excellence of the subject contributed much to
the happiness of the execution. --Dryden.
2. A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully
inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.
A warrant for his execution. --Shak.
3. The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of
performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the
execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.
The first quality of execution is truth. --Ruskin.
4. (Law)
(a) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court
of law.
(b) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to
carry a judgment into effect; final process.
(c) The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument,
or giving it the forms required to render it valid;
as, the execution of a deed, or a will.
5. That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective
work; -- usually with do.
To do some fatal execution. --Shak.
6. The act of sacking a town. [Obs.] --Beau. & FL.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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EXECUTION, contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as theExecution : of a
bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of
the same.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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EXECUTION, crim. law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in
pursuance of his sentence.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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EXECUTION, practice. The act of carrying into effect the final judgment of a
court, or other jurisdiction. The writ which authorizes the officer so to
carry into effect such judgment is also called an execution.
2. A distinction has been made between anExecution : which is used to
make the money due on a judgment out of the property of the defendant, and
which is called a final execution; and one which tends to an end but is not
absolutely final, as a capias ad satisfaciendum, by virtue of which the body
of the defendant is taken, to the intent that the plaintiff shall be
satisfied his debt, &c., the imprisonment not being absolute, but until he
shall satisfy the same; this is called an execution quousque. 6 Co. 87.
3. Executions are either to recover specific things, or money. 1. Of
the first class are the writs of habere facias seisinam.; (q.v.) habere
facias possessionem; (q.v.) retorno habendo; (q.v.) distringas. (q.v.) 2.
Executions for the recovery of money are those which issue against the body
of the defendant, as the capias ad satisfaciendum, (q.v.); an attachment,
(q.v.); those which issue against his goods and chattels; namely, the fieri
facias, (q.v.); the, venditioni exponas, (q.v.); those which issue against
his lands, the levari facias; (q.v.) the liberari facias; the elegit. (q.v.)
Vide 10 Vin. Ab. 541; 1 Ves. jr. 430; 1 Sell. Pr. 512; Bac. Ab. h.t.;
Com. Dig. h.t.; the various Digests, h.t.; Tidd's Pr. Index, h.t.; 3
Bouv. Inst. n. 3365, et seq. Courts will at any time grant leave to amend an
execution so as to make it conformable to the judgment on which it was
issued. 1 Serg. & R. 98. A writ of error lies on an award of execution. 5
Rep. 32, a; 1 Rawle, Rep. 47, 48; Writ of Execution;
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Execution :
The process of carrying out
the instructions in a computer program by a computer.
See also dry run.
(1996-05-13)
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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