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Enforce

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

To put into execution; to cause to take effect; to make effective; as, to enforce a writ, a judgment or the collection of a debt or fine.

Breitenbach v. Bush, 44 Pa. 320, 84 Am. Dec. 442; Emery v. Emery, 9 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 132; People v. Christerson, 59 III. 158.